Comment 7 for bug 1654310

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 04:28:07PM -0000, Jason Baron wrote:
> Ok, I guess we could intercept the /proc/<pid>/stat read() call and
> overwrite the starttime there with the correct value? That is, add the
> starttime from /proc/<pid>/stat to the host boot time and then subtract
> that from the guest boot time.

We can't really do that since this is equivalent to over-mounting /proc itself.
Instead, we have reverted the "btime" virtualization patch for now and we'll
likely include this in the next round of SRUs.

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> Title:
> lxcfs: update the 'btime' field in /proc/stat to reflect guest boot
> time not host
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> Status in lxcfs package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
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> 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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