netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] timekeeping: Add clocksource to system_time

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Message-ID: <aa1ec910-b7b6-2568-4583-5fa47aac367f@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:36:42 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Jianyong Wu <jianyong.wu@....com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        yangbo.lu@....com, john.stultz@...aro.org,
        sean.j.christopherson@...el.com, maz@...nel.org,
        richardcochran@...il.com, Mark.Rutland@....com, will@...nel.org,
        suzuki.poulose@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, Steve.Capper@....com, Kaly.Xin@....com,
        justin.he@....com, nd@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] timekeeping: Add clocksource to
 system_time_snapshot

On 15/10/19 22:13, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2019, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 15/10/19 12:48, Jianyong Wu wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
> 
> You're sure about having reviewed that in detail?

I did review the patch; the void* ugliness is not in this one, and I do
have some other qualms on that one.

> This changelog is telling absolutely nothing WHY anything outside of the
> timekeeping core code needs access to the current clocksource. Neither does
> it tell why it is safe to provide the pointer to random callers.

Agreed on the changelog, but the pointer to a clocksource is already
part of the timekeeping external API via struct system_counterval_t.
get_device_system_crosststamp for example expects a clocksource pointer
but provides no way to get such a pointer.

Paolo