Re: Voyager subarchitecture for 2.5.46

[Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>]

commence  Pavel Machek quotation:

>> This is just a random sanity check thing, after all. It doesn't have to be 
>> system-global or even per-cpu. The only really important thing is that 
>> "gettimeofday()" should return monotonically increasing data - and if it 
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> doesn't, the vsyscall would have to ask why (sometimes it's fine, if 
>> somebody did a settimeofday, but usually it's a sign of trouble).
>
> I believe you need it system-global. If task A tells task B "its
> 10:30:00" and than task B does gettimeofday and gets "10:29:59", it
> will be confused for sure.

Hence the requirement that it be monotonically increasing.

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