Re: [PATCH] lib/vdso: use CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE for time()

[Mark Salyzyn]

On Jun 11, 2020, at 12:34 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> From: Chiawei Wang <chiaweiwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> CLOCK_REALTIME in vdso data won't be updated if
>> __arch_use_vsyscall() returns false.
> 
> Errm!
> 
> # git grep __arch_use_vsyscall
> #
> 
> Aside of that update_vsyscall() updates CLOCK_REALTIME data
> unconditionally. No idea what this patch is solving.
> 
>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 5.4+
> 
> This # 5.4+ is pointless. You really want to add a fixes tag which pin
> points the commit which introduced the wreckage.
> 
> But thats moot as this is not fixing anything not even in 5.4.
> 
> I assume this was developed against some Frankenkernel which has a messy
> backport or a snapshot of some development version of that vdso stuff.

Yes, problem code was removed with 52338415cf4d4064ae6b8dd972dadbda841da4fa not applied.

4.19 back port without time namespaces, chip vendor using __arch_use_vsyscall to solve a chip errata.

> 
> Not that I want to know, but please make sure that something you send my
> way makes sense on sane kernels.
> 
> Oh well.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>        tglx

Sorry for your troubles.

Sincerely â Mark Salyzyn