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SubjectRe: [PATCH] proc: make high precision system boot time available
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On 30 June 2013 16:10, Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi> wrote:
>
>> BTW having a way to measure effect of suspend/resume could lead to a
>> way to fix time time distortion.
>
>> Perhaps there is better alternative to fix user space programs.
>> Unfortunately I do not have either knowledge, or imagination, to come
>> up with any. Fix hints, ideas, and other proposal are most welcome.
>
> Stuff should just use:
> clock_gettime(CLOCK_BOOTTIME, &ts);
>
> to get the time in better resolution, and with suspend time taken into account?
>
> As a general note, the kmsg/printk() time in the raw kernel log is the
> time of the CPU it runs on, especially during early init this time
> might not be in sync across CPUs and stuff jumps event in the very
> same stream on events from the kernel itself:
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/kernel/sched/clock.c#n329

Thank you Kay,

The clock_gettime(CLOCK_BOOTTIME, &uptime); seems to be exactly what
dmesg needs. A patch to fix dmesg wigging will be sent to util-linux
maillist shortly. Perhaps the dmesg / journald time stamp difference
issue will be fixed someday, but that discussion does not belong to
linux-kernel mailist, so it is time to declare

end of thread.

--
Sami Kerola
http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/


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