diff --git a/base/include/android-base/logging.h b/base/include/android-base/logging.h
index 50677a3..e78edbb 100644
--- a/base/include/android-base/logging.h
+++ b/base/include/android-base/logging.h
@@ -17,6 +17,37 @@
 #ifndef ANDROID_BASE_LOGGING_H
 #define ANDROID_BASE_LOGGING_H
 
+//
+// Google-style C++ logging.
+//
+
+// This header provides a C++ stream interface to logging.
+//
+// To log:
+//
+//   LOG(INFO) << "Some text; " << some_value;
+//
+// Replace `INFO` with any severity from `enum LogSeverity`.
+//
+// To log the result of a failed function and include the string
+// representation of `errno` at the end:
+//
+//   PLOG(ERROR) << "Write failed";
+//
+// The output will be something like `Write failed: I/O error`.
+// Remember this as 'P' as in perror(3).
+//
+// To output your own types, simply implement operator<< as normal.
+//
+// By default, output goes to logcat on Android and stderr on the host.
+// A process can use `SetLogger` to decide where all logging goes.
+// Implementations are provided for logcat, stderr, and dmesg.
+
+// This header also provides assertions:
+//
+//   CHECK(must_be_true);
+//   CHECK_EQ(a, b) << z_is_interesting_too;
+
 // NOTE: For Windows, you must include logging.h after windows.h to allow the
 // following code to suppress the evil ERROR macro:
 #ifdef _WIN32
diff --git a/libutils/include/utils/Condition.h b/libutils/include/utils/Condition.h
index 25a53aa..2c80acd 100644
--- a/libutils/include/utils/Condition.h
+++ b/libutils/include/utils/Condition.h
@@ -86,19 +86,22 @@
 
 #if !defined(_WIN32)
 
-inline Condition::Condition() {
-    pthread_cond_init(&mCond, NULL);
+inline Condition::Condition() : Condition(PRIVATE) {
 }
 inline Condition::Condition(int type) {
+    pthread_condattr_t attr;
+    pthread_condattr_init(&attr);
+#if defined(__linux__)
+    pthread_condattr_setclock(&attr, CLOCK_MONOTONIC);
+#endif
+
     if (type == SHARED) {
-        pthread_condattr_t attr;
-        pthread_condattr_init(&attr);
         pthread_condattr_setpshared(&attr, PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED);
-        pthread_cond_init(&mCond, &attr);
-        pthread_condattr_destroy(&attr);
-    } else {
-        pthread_cond_init(&mCond, NULL);
     }
+
+    pthread_cond_init(&mCond, &attr);
+    pthread_condattr_destroy(&attr);
+
 }
 inline Condition::~Condition() {
     pthread_cond_destroy(&mCond);
@@ -109,7 +112,7 @@
 inline status_t Condition::waitRelative(Mutex& mutex, nsecs_t reltime) {
     struct timespec ts;
 #if defined(__linux__)
-    clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &ts);
+    clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &ts);
 #else // __APPLE__
     // Apple doesn't support POSIX clocks.
     struct timeval t;