linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/14] clocksource / timekeeping rework V3

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Date:	Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:28:21 -0700
From:	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
To:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/14] clocksource / timekeeping rework V3

On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 17:40 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> Greetings,
> version 3 of the clocksource / timekeeping cleanup patches. As far as
> I'm concerned this is the final version, modulo bugs and review results.
> All the things I want to have in there are done.
> 
> The latest additions are:
> 1) Change read_persistent_clock to return a struct timespec instead of
>    an unsigned long with the number of seconds.
> 2) Introduce read_boot_clock to initialize wall_to_monotonic.
> 
> The patch set is based on todays upstream tree plus the patches from
> the tip tree, if anyone wants to try them you need to pull from the
> master branch of
>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip

So I got the patch queue up and running and it's functioning correctly
on the box I tested it with (although its not a super interesting box:
TSC is unstable and it only has ACPI PM).

Although I've not been able to test changing clocksources, I assume you
gave that a whirl? I'll test that as soon as I can get access to a TSC
friendly box.

Once the "cycles_last = 0" fix is in to make sure TSC boxes work, I
think this set should be ok to go in.

thanks
-john

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