[Xen-users] Resolve "Time went backwards" problem by using jiffies as clocksource

[Daniel Lam <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I'm new to Xen and... Happy New Year!

After restarting dom-0, my dom-u prints this in console once every second,

[55082.616234] __ratelimit: 1503 messages suppressed

[55082.616234] clocksource/0: Time went backwards: ret=380ab26c53a

I resolved this by following the instructions in "http://wiki.debian.org/Xen",

which is basically changing clocksource to "jiffies".

Now the problem has gone away, I'm wondering if somebody can help me:

1. Is domain-0 not able to set the system time of domain-u the root cause?

    I can see this error in console "Unable to set System Clock to: <a datetime value>",

    even after I changed clocksource to "jiffies".

2. Why can't domain-0 set the date of the domain-u?

3. If this is the only way to go (using jiffies clocksource), I will have to sync

    the domain-u system time manually using something like ntpd?

Thanks!

cheers,

Daniel

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