Re: [Qemu-devel] [for 4.2 PATCH 0/3] Remove time reset notifications

2019-07-22 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 22/07/19 17:07, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote: > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" > > Timers have a mechanism for detecting host clock jumps; this relied > on noticing if the time had gone backwards or if it had gone forward > more than 60s since we last read it. This had assumed that we r

[Qemu-devel] [for 4.2 PATCH 0/3] Remove time reset notifications

2019-07-22 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" Timers have a mechanism for detecting host clock jumps; this relied on noticing if the time had gone backwards or if it had gone forward more than 60s since we last read it. This had assumed that we regularly read the time, which isn't true any more - we might not