linux-kernel - Re: [GIT pull] printk updates for 4.15

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Date:   Sat, 18 Nov 2017 02:00:35 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:     Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@...roid.com>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT pull] printk updates for 4.15

On Fri, 17 Nov 2017, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> >
> > Here you go. It survived suspend resume in a VM.
> 
> That looks almost too small.
> 
> If this were to allow us to basically unify BOOTTIME/MONOTONIC, that
> would be lovely.

I surely missed something. John should figure that out faster than me.

> Should we just try it, with the understanding that we'll quite
> possibly have to just revert?

You've seen the warning in the changelog :)

> Assuming this works, what would the "phase two" patch that actually
> unifies the two (as opposed to make them have the same value) look
> like?
> 
> Is that just basically just removing the dozen or so "offst_boot"
> uses, or are there other possible simplifications?

Pretty much. We can't get rid of CLOCK_BOOTTIME and the handling of it,
though we can remove one hrtimer clock base by mapping boot time to
monotonic. That's about it.

Thanks,

	tglx