linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/13] timekeeping: Add the boot clock to system time snapshot

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Message-ID: <87r08ywn6o.ffs@tglx>
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 17:15:43 +0200
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@...gle.com>, rostedt@...dmis.org,
 mhiramat@...nel.org, linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org, maz@...nel.org,
 oliver.upton@...ux.dev
Cc: kvmarm@...ts.linux.dev, will@...nel.org, qperret@...gle.com,
 kernel-team@...roid.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Vincent Donnefort
 <vdonnefort@...gle.com>, John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>, Stephen Boyd
 <sboyd@...nel.org>, "Christopher S. Hall" <christopher.s.hall@...el.com>,
 Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>, Lakshmi Sowjanya D
 <lakshmi.sowjanya.d@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/13] timekeeping: Add the boot clock to system time
 snapshot

On Wed, Sep 11 2024 at 10:30, Vincent Donnefort wrote:
> For tracing purpose, the boot clock is interesting as it doesn't stop on
> suspend. Export it as part of the time snapshot. This will later allow
> the hypervisor to add boot clock timestamps to its events.
>
> Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
> Cc: Christopher S. Hall <christopher.s.hall@...el.com>
> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
> Cc: Lakshmi Sowjanya D <lakshmi.sowjanya.d@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@...gle.com>

I've queued this in on top of v6.12-rc1 as I have upcoming time keeping
changes. I've tagged this commit so it can be pulled by the arm64/kvm
people to base the other changes on:

 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git tk-for-arm64-kvm

Thanks,

        tglx