[release-branch.go1.9] runtime: avoid monotonic time zero on systems with low-res timers

Otherwise low-res timers cause problems at call sites that expect to
be able to use 0 as meaning "no time set" and therefore expect that
nanotime never returns 0 itself. For example, sched.lastpoll == 0
means no last poll.

Fixes #22394.

Change-Id: Iea28acfddfff6f46bc90f041ec173e0fea591285
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/73410
Run-TryBot: Russ Cox <[email protected]>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/73491
TryBot-Result: Russ Cox <[email protected]>

Author: rsc

src/runtime/proc.go

@@ -142,6 +142,9 @@ func main() {
 	}
 
 	runtime_init() // must be before defer
+	if nanotime() == 0 {
+		throw("nanotime returning zero")
+	}
 
 	// Defer unlock so that runtime.Goexit during init does the unlock too.
 	needUnlock := true

src/runtime/time.go

@@ -309,4 +309,10 @@ func time_runtimeNano() int64 {
 	return nanotime()
 }
 
-var startNano int64 = nanotime()
+// Monotonic times are reported as offsets from startNano.
+// We initialize startNano to nanotime() - 1 so that on systems where
+// monotonic time resolution is fairly low (e.g. Windows 2008
+// which appears to have a default resolution of 15ms),
+// we avoid ever reporting a nanotime of 0.
+// (Callers may want to use 0 as "time not set".)
+var startNano int64 = nanotime() - 1