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Message-ID: <20201227215734.GC22981@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 16:57:34 -0500
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
To: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@...me>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/18] clock_adjtime: try adjtimex at last

On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 06:41:02PM +0000, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> Try to use deprecated adjtimex only after clock_adjtime_time64 or
> clock_adjtime fail with -ENOSYS.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@...me>
> ---
>  src/linux/clock_adjtime.c | 12 +++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/linux/clock_adjtime.c b/src/linux/clock_adjtime.c
> index d4d03d24df40..5a21d5625e59 100644
> --- a/src/linux/clock_adjtime.c
> +++ b/src/linux/clock_adjtime.c
> @@ -114,11 +114,11 @@ int clock_adjtime (clockid_t clock_id, struct timex *utx)
>  			.stbcnt = utx->stbcnt,
>  			.tai = utx->tai,
>  		};
> +		r = __syscall(SYS_clock_adjtime, clock_id, &ktx);
>  #ifdef SYS_adjtimex
> -		if (clock_id==CLOCK_REALTIME) r = __syscall(SYS_adjtimex, &ktx);
> -		else
> +		if (r == -ENOSYS && clock_id == CLOCK_REALTIME)
> +			r = __syscall(SYS_adjtimex, &ktx);
>  #endif
> -		r = __syscall(SYS_clock_adjtime, clock_id, &ktx);
>  		if (r>=0) {
>  			utx->modes = ktx.modes;
>  			utx->offset = ktx.offset;
> @@ -144,8 +144,10 @@ int clock_adjtime (clockid_t clock_id, struct timex *utx)
>  		}
>  		return __syscall_ret(r);
>  	}
> +	r = __syscall(SYS_clock_adjtime, clock_id, utx);
>  #ifdef SYS_adjtimex
> -	if (clock_id==CLOCK_REALTIME) return syscall(SYS_adjtimex, utx);
> +	if (r == -ENOSYS && clock_id == CLOCK_REALTIME)
> +		r = __syscall(SYS_adjtimex, utx);
>  #endif
> -	return syscall(SYS_clock_adjtime, clock_id, utx);
> +	return __syscall_ret(r);
>  }
> -- 
> 2.29.2
> 

This proposed change seems to have nothing to do with supporting
CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME=n and makes fallback behavior strictly worse
for old kernels.

Rich

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