[PATCH] um: time-travel: fix time going backwards

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Wed Oct 25 13:02:33 PDT 2023


On Wed, 2023-10-25 at 21:51 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-10-25 at 11:55 +0000, Vincent Whitchurch wrote:
> > On Mon, 2023-10-23 at 09:33 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > Do you have a specific workload that tends to reproduce this?
> > 
> > I've been seeing it when running roadtest, but it's easily reproducible
> > without that by using the attached config and the following program as
> > init.
> > 
> >   cp repro.config .config
> >   make ARCH=um olddefconfig all
> >   gcc -Wall -static -o repro repro.c
> >   ./linux time-travel init=$PWD/repro rootfstype=hostfs

Ohhh.

Pure "time-travel" is actually something I hardly think about these
days, we mostly use time-travel=inf-cpu (or =ext).

That makes sense, here you actually *can* get interrupted. I'll need to
dig into what happens though.

johannes



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