linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc: xmon: use ktime_get_coarse

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Date:   Tue, 19 Jun 2018 11:53:03 +1000
From:   Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, y2038@...ts.linaro.org,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "open list:LINUX FOR POWERPC (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" 
        <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: xmon: use ktime_get_coarse_boottime64

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 7:56 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> get_monotonic_boottime() is deprecated, and may not be safe to call in
> every context, as it has to read a hardware clocksource.
>
> This changes xmon to print the time using ktime_get_coarse_boottime64()
> instead, which avoids the old timespec type and the HW access.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> ---

Looks good to me!

Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>

Balbir Singh