UML's supposed nanosecond clock interacts badly with NTP when NTP decides that the clock has drifted ahead and needs to be slowed down. Slowing down the clock is done by decrementing the cycle-to-nanosecond multiplier, which is 1. Decrementing that gives you 0 and time is stopped.
This is fixed by switching to a microsecond clock, with a multiplier of 1000. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/um/kernel/time.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6-git/arch/um/kernel/time.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-git.orig/arch/um/kernel/time.c 2008-02-15 11:43:41.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6-git/arch/um/kernel/time.c 2008-04-24 16:01:35.000000000 -0400 @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ static irqreturn_t um_timer(int irq, voi static cycle_t itimer_read(void) { - return os_nsecs(); + return os_nsecs() / 1000; } static struct clocksource itimer_clocksource = { @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static struct clocksource itimer_clockso .rating = 300, .read = itimer_read, .mask = CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(64), - .mult = 1, + .mult = 1000, .shift = 0, .flags = CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS, }; ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel