You might be right. But does it mean we can count on wake up mechanism to
wake up up every _interval according to monotonic or real-time clock. I am
honestly a bit at loss in my reasoning:-)

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 11:30 Nadav Har'El <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 3:47 AM Waldemar Kozaczuk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> When wall clock jumps backwards triggered for example by host clock
>> change and propagated through kvmclock synchronization mechanism
>> implemented by the commit
>> https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv/commit/e694d066d20d87897d4a9b6dc721c0926d0fdc74
>> ,
>> timerfd::read() may see 'now' timepoint before the 'expiration' upon
>> wakeup event which is opposite to what the current implementation
>> expects and leads to broken assert crash.
>>
>> This patch fixes the implementation of timerfd::read() by
>> differentiating between CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME
>> and handling the case when clock is realtime (wall clock)
>> and 'now' is before the 'expiration'. In which case we
>> simply re-arm to wake up at the same 'expiration' timepoint
>> which is still ahead.
>>
>> Partially addresses #1076. Please note that we need to adjust
>> tst-timerfd to account for clock jumping forwards or backwards.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Waldemar Kozaczuk <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  libc/timerfd.cc | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
>>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/libc/timerfd.cc b/libc/timerfd.cc
>> index 5d382fa3..70500dca 100644
>> --- a/libc/timerfd.cc
>> +++ b/libc/timerfd.cc
>> @@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ int timerfd::read(uio *data, int flags)
>>      }
>>
>>      WITH_LOCK(_mutex) {
>> +again:
>>          while (!_expiration || _wakeup_due) {
>>              if (f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) {
>>                  return EAGAIN;
>> @@ -193,14 +194,21 @@ int timerfd::read(uio *data, int flags)
>>              _expiration = 0;
>>          } else {
>>              auto now = time_now();
>> -            // set next wakeup for the next multiple of interval from
>> -            // _expiration which is after "now".
>> -            assert (now >= _expiration);
>> -            u64 count = (now - _expiration) / _interval;
>> -            _expiration = _expiration + (count+1) * _interval;
>> -            _wakeup_due = _expiration;
>> -            _wakeup_change_cond.wake_one();
>> -            ret = 1 + count;
>> +            if (_clockid == CLOCK_MONOTONIC || now >= _expiration) {
>> +                // set next wakeup for the next multiple of interval from
>> +                // _expiration which is after "now".
>> +                assert (now >= _expiration);
>> +                u64 count = (now - _expiration) / _interval;
>> +                _expiration = _expiration + (count+1) * _interval;
>> +                _wakeup_due = _expiration;
>> +                _wakeup_change_cond.wake_one();
>> +                ret = 1 + count;
>> +            } else {
>> +                // Clock is REALTIME and now < _expiration (clock may
>> have jumped backwards)
>> +                _wakeup_due = _expiration;
>>
>
> I wonder if this shouldn't be  _expiration + interval -
> _expiration was the time of the *previous* expiration, which already
> happened. The next expiration is supposed to happen at _expiration +
> interval.
> For example, if the interval is 1 second, and we had a wakeup at wall
> clock 7.0, and suddenly wallclock went back to 6.999, the next wakeup
> should still be at 8.0 - not at 7.0 again.
>
>
> +                _wakeup_change_cond.wake_one();
>> +                goto again;
>>
> +            }
>>          }
>>          copy_to_uio((const char *)&ret, sizeof(ret), data);
>>          return 0;
>> --
>> 2.20.1
>>
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