[LTP] [PATCH] clock_gettime03: Fix issues with negative offset

[Naresh Kamboju]

On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 17:11, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> The tests takes difference between two time readings and check it
> against the offset set by the test. When the offset is set to a positive
> value (eg 10000 ms), then the diff comes to a value >= 10000 ms (eg
> 10001 ms), and with divided by 1000, both sides evaluate to 10.
>
> But when the offset is set to -10000 ms, then the delta is >= -10000 ms
> (eg -9999) ms. And when divided by 1000, it comes to -9 != -10 and the
> test reports error. Over that we are comparing value in seconds, which
> is too large of a value. Change the test to compare delta in ms and fix
> the false failures.

Test ran for 100 iterations on x86 device and confirmed test getting pass.

>
> Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>

Tested-by:  Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>

ref:
https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5640
- Naresh