Corrected gettimeofday() test code

[Kris Kennaway]

I forwarded the reports of timecounter problems to phk, and he asked
that people who are seeing timecounter problems provide FULL details
of their system configuration, including:

* dmesg

* kernel configuration

* compiler options

* time-related system configuration (whether ntpd/timed/ntpdate is
running, and if so whether it's correcting for a seriously drifting
clock)

* The kernel timecounter configuration, e.g. the
kern.timecounter.method and kern.timecounter.hardware sysctls, and
whether changing them has any effect.

* The exact output of the corrected test program below (the original
would give spurious errors if it didn't run at least once a second,
which may have been confusing some people if their systems were
sufficiently loaded).

* The system status when the problem is observed (i.e. does it only
occur under load; what else is running at the time)

It's hard to track down this kind of problem when people don't provide
this level of detail, and half-reports just confuse the issue.

Thanks,

Kris

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Have them run this one instead...

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/time.h>

int
main()
{
        struct timeval prevtime;
        struct timeval curtime;
        double last, now;

        gettimeofday(&prevtime, NULL);
        last = prevtime.tv_sec + prevtime.tv_usec * 1e-6;

        for (;;)
        {
                gettimeofday(&curtime, NULL);
                now = curtime.tv_sec + curtime.tv_usec * 1e-6;

                if (now < last) {
                        printf("%f %f %d.%06d %d.%06d\n", now, last,
                            curtime.tv_sec, curtime.tv_usec,
                            prevtime.tv_sec, prevtime.tv_usec);
                }
                last = now;
                prevtime = curtime;
        }

        return 0;
}

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