linux-kernel - Re: powerpc: xmon: use ktime_get_coarse

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Date:   Wed, 11 Jul 2018 23:24:10 +1000 (AEST)
From:   Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@...erman.id.au>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, y2038@...ts.linaro.org,
        Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: powerpc: xmon: use ktime_get_coarse_boottime64

On Mon, 2018-06-18 at 09:56:24 UTC, Arnd Bergmann 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>
> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/f6bd74fa084eb9ad573ffbb236a095

cheers