Re: Screwy clock after apm suspend

[Pavel Machek]

Hia

>  > Looking harder, in arch/i386/kernel/apm.c the system time is also
>  > saved and restored in a very similar way to timer_suspend/resume.
>  > Would this account for the time drift in APM mode? (sleep time being
>  > accounted for twice?)
> 
> No, apm.c's update to xtime is absolute, just like time.c's.
> Doing both is pointless but not harmful. (I've already tried
> with apm.c's xtime update commented out, but the time-warp
> bug remained.)
> 
> My 0.02 SEK says it's the jiffies update that's broken.

Okay, can you

* kill jiffie update (x86-64, too)
* remove apm.c variant
* test it (or make someone test it) with apm?

I now see the drift with acpi, too :-(. I can do the acpi testing...

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64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms         

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