pthread's and semaphore's default behavior is to use CLOCK_REALTIME,
however this behavior is essentially never intended, as that clock is
prone to change discontinuously.
What users really intend is to use CLOCK_MONOTONIC, however only
pthread_cond_timedwait() provides this as an option and even there, a
large amount of existing code does not opt into CLOCK_MONOTONIC.
We have seen numerous bugs directly attributable to this difference.
Therefore, we provide this general workaround to always use
CLOCK_MONOTONIC for waiting, regardless of what the input timespec
is.
Specifically this impacts the below APIs:
pthread_mutex_timedlock()
pthread_cond_timedwait()
pthread_rwlock_timedrdlock()
pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock()
sem_timedwait()
Test: boot bullhead, boot sailfish
Test: bionic pthread/semaphore unit tests
Test: check that pthread_cond_timedwait() timeouts are uneffected by
CLOCK_REALTIME time changes
Bug: 64694413
Bug: 64623895
Bug: 35756266
Bug: 35678943
Change-Id: Ibba98f5d88be1c306d14e9b9366302ecbef6d534
This function only exists for backwards compatibility, so leave it as it was.
Bug: http://b/26944282
Change-Id: I31973d1402660933103ee2d815649ab9569e4dfc
Tom Cherry
Elliott Hughes
Yabin Cui