linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Introduce boot based time

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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 16:40:28 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Tomas Janousek <tjanouse@...hat.com>
Cc:	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tsmetana@...hat.com, riel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce boot based time

On Thu, 10 May 2007 19:10:25 +0200
Tomas Janousek <tjanouse@...hat.com> wrote:

> The commits
>   411187fb05cd11676b0979d9fbf3291db69dbce2 (GTOD: persistent clock support)
>   c1d370e167d66b10bca3b602d3740405469383de (i386: use GTOD persistent clock
>     support)
> changed the monotonic time so that it no longer jumps after resume, but it's
> not possible to use it for boot time and process start time calculations then.
> Also, the uptime no longer increases during suspend.
> 
> I add a variable to track the wall_to_monotonic changes, a function to get the
> real boot time and a function to get the boot based time from the monotonic
> one.

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

- I don't think those sybols are needed in modules.

- Document total_sleep_time units (would have been better to call it
  total_sleep_time_secs, perhaps).

Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
Cc: Tomas Janousek <tjanouse@...hat.com>
Cc: Tomas Smetana <tsmetana@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
---

 kernel/time/timekeeping.c |    6 +-----
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff -puN include/linux/time.h~introduce-boot-based-time-fix include/linux/time.h
diff -puN kernel/time/timekeeping.c~introduce-boot-based-time-fix kernel/time/timekeeping.c
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c~introduce-boot-based-time-fix
+++ a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(xtime_lock);
  */
 struct timespec xtime __attribute__ ((aligned (16)));
 struct timespec wall_to_monotonic __attribute__ ((aligned (16)));
-static unsigned long total_sleep_time;
+static unsigned long total_sleep_time;		/* seconds */
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(xtime);
 
@@ -503,8 +503,6 @@ void getboottime(struct timespec *ts)
 		- wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec);
 }
 
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(getboottime);
-
 /**
  * monotonic_to_bootbased - Convert the monotonic time to boot based.
  * @ts:		pointer to the timespec to be converted
@@ -513,5 +511,3 @@ void monotonic_to_bootbased(struct times
 {
 	ts->tv_sec += total_sleep_time;
 }
-
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(monotonic_to_bootbased);
_

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