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SubjectRE: [PATCH 3/6] Timer: expose monotonic clock and counter value
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Hi Richard,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 11:43 AM
> To: Jianyong Wu (Arm Technology China) <Jianyong.Wu@arm.com>
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; pbonzini@redhat.com;
> sean.j.christopherson@intel.com; maz@kernel.org; Mark Rutland
> <Mark.Rutland@arm.com>; Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm.com>; Suzuki
> Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com>; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Steve
> Capper <Steve.Capper@arm.com>; Kaly Xin (Arm Technology China)
> <Kaly.Xin@arm.com>; Justin He (Arm Technology China)
> <Justin.He@arm.com>; nd <nd@arm.com>; linux-arm-
> kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] Timer: expose monotonic clock and counter value
>
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 07:24:27AM -0400, Jianyong Wu wrote:
> > A number of PTP drivers (such as ptp-kvm) are assuming what the
> > current clock source is, which could lead to interesting effects on
> > systems where the clocksource can change depending on external events.
> >
> > For this purpose, add a new API that retrives both the current
> > monotonic clock as well as its counter value.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Jianyong Wu <jianyong.wu@arm.com>
> > ---
> > include/linux/timekeeping.h | 3 +++
> > kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 13 +++++++++++++
> > 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
>
> For core time keeping changes, you must CC lkml, tglx, and John Stultz.
>

Thanks, I will.

Thanks
Jianyong Wu

> Thanks,
> Richard

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