[LTP] [PATCH v3 4/4] syscalls/clock_adjtime: create clock_adjtime syscall tests
Rafael David Tinoco
rafael.tinoco@linaro.org
Fri Mar 22 14:36:25 CET 2019
> On 22 Mar 2019, at 10:34, Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>>> + if (rval != TIME_OK)
>>> + tst_brk(TBROK | TTERRNO, "unsynced clock or on-going leap???);
>>
>> I choose to break test if rval > 0 mainly because it could still have
>> on-going leap operations, since clock_adjtime() is async, and also
>> because doing the test with an unsynced clock seems weird.
>
> We should print the saved with timex_show() here and the rval at least.
Alright. v4 on its way.
>
> It however it looks like kernel boots with STA_UNSYNC until NTP manges
> to sync the time and clears the flag but only if it manages to sync the
> clock.
>
> See:
>
> http://linuxelf.com/blog/2017/03/27/clock-status-unsync/
>
> Which itself is an argument to run the test with unsynced clock, since
> not all environments have access to internet or ntp daemon running.
Valid point. I’ll allow rval being 5 then.
>
> --
> Cyril Hrubis
> chrubis@suse.cz
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