Merge of mysql-5.1 into mysql-5.5.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mysys/my_getsystime.c b/mysys/my_getsystime.c
index cc5d1b83efb..614f49fc425 100644
--- a/mysys/my_getsystime.c
+++ b/mysys/my_getsystime.c
@@ -165,7 +165,13 @@ ulonglong my_micro_time_and_time(time_t *time_arg)
 
   mysql_mutex_lock(&THR_LOCK_time);
   cur_gethrtime= gethrtime();
-  if ((cur_gethrtime - prev_gethrtime) > DELTA_FOR_SECONDS)
+  /*
+    Due to bugs in the Solaris (x86) implementation of gethrtime(),
+    the time returned by it might not be monotonic. Don't use the
+    cached time(2) value if this is a case.
+  */
+  if ((prev_gethrtime > cur_gethrtime) ||
+      ((cur_gethrtime - prev_gethrtime) > DELTA_FOR_SECONDS))
   {
     cur_time= time(0);
     prev_gethrtime= cur_gethrtime;