linux-kernel - Re: [patch V2 50/64] hangcheck-timer: Use ktime_get

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2014 15:08:54 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch V2 50/64] hangcheck-timer: Use ktime_get_ns()

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 09:05:03PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> There is no point in having a S390 private implementation and there is
> no point in using the raw monotonic time. The NTP freqeuency
> adjustment of CLOCK_MONOTONIC is really not doing any harm for the
> hang check timer.
> 
> Use ktime_get_ns() for everything and get rid of the timespec
> conversions.
> 
> V2: Drop the raw monotonic and the S390 special case
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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