| Date | Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:08:57 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/15] clocksource / timekeeping rework V4 (resend V3 + bug fix) |
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Martin,
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> Greetings, > version 4 of the clocksource / timekeeping cleanup patches. If you > wonder why version 3 did not show up on the mailing list: I had a > hiccup with quilt which did strange things to the message ids and > the post to lkml got rejected. Sorry for the spamming of the people > on Cc. > > John pointed out a subtle bug in v3 of the patch set with the reset of > the cycle_last value in timekeeping_resume. Fixed in v4. > > The latest additions are: > 1) Change read_persistent_clock to return a struct timespec instead of > an unsigned long with the number of seconds. > 2) Introduce read_boot_clock to initialize wall_to_monotonic. > 3) Move the reset of cycle_last to zero from the timekeeping code to > the TSC code. > > The patch set is based on todays upstream tree plus the patches from > the tip tree, if anyone wants to try them you need to pull from the > master branch of > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip > > Keeping the fingers crossed that this is now really done. > John already gave his thumbs up for the patch series, so the next > logical question is who is going to sit on the patches until the merge > window is opened? I can certainly create a git branch on git390 for > them, but the patches depend on some patches in the x86-tip tree. > Thomas, any thoughts?
I'm going through them and pick them up into -tip.
Thanks,
tglx
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