On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 04:44:21PM -0700, John Stultz wrote: > Due to how the MONOTONIC_RAW accumulation logic was handled, > there is the potential for a 1ns discontinuity when we do > accumulations. This small discontinuity has for the most part > gone un-noticed, but since ARM64 enabled CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW > in their vDSO clock_gettime implementation, we've seen failures > with the inconsistency-check test in kselftest. > > This patch addresses the issue by using the same sub-ns > accumulation handling that CLOCK_MONOTONIC uses, which avoids > the issue for in-kernel users.
The patch looks good to me and in testing on x86_64 I didn't see any issues with the CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW clock. Thanks, -- Miroslav Lichvar
