Comment 5 for bug 1654310

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 01:04:38PM -0000, gozdal wrote:
> This introduces a different problem: process creation time is counted as
> offset from btime:
>
> (22) starttime %llu
> The time the process started after system boot. In
> kernels before Linux 2.6, this value was expressed
> in jiffies. Since Linux 2.6, the value is expressed
> in clock ticks (divide by sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK)).

Yes, we reverted that patch since we consider STTIME to be more important.

>
> (http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html)
>
> This means that because starttime is not virtualized, all the processes
> within the LXC container appear as time travellers from the future.
>
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> Title:
> lxcfs: update the 'btime' field in /proc/stat to reflect guest boot
> time not host
>
> Status in lxcfs package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> The 'btime' field in /proc/stat reflects the host boot time and not
> the time that the guest container has started.
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