From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752142AbcK2QKj (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Nov 2016 11:10:39 -0500 Received: from mail-vk0-f42.google.com ([209.85.213.42]:35374 "EHLO mail-vk0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750820AbcK2QKb (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Nov 2016 11:10:31 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161129072651.GD29412@gmail.com> References: <1480372524-15181-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> <1480372524-15181-8-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> <20161129072651.GD29412@gmail.com> From: Joel Fernandes Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 08:10:30 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] trace: Update documentation for mono, mono_raw and boot clock To: Ingo Molnar Cc: John Stultz , lkml , Steven Rostedt , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Richard Cochran , Prarit Bhargava Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 11:26 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * John Stultz wrote: > >> + boot: This is the boot clock (CLOCK_BOOTTIME) and is based on the >> + fast monotonic clock, but also accounts for time spent in >> + suspend. Since the clock access is designed for use in >> + tracing in the suspend path, some side effects are possible >> + if clock is accessed after the suspend time is accounted before >> + the fast mono clock is updated. In this case, the clock update >> + appears to happen slightly sooner than it normally would have. >> + Also on 32-bit systems, its possible that the 64-bit boot offset >> + sees a partial update. These effects are rare and post >> + processing should be able to handle them. See comments on >> + ktime_get_boot_fast_ns function for more information. > > s/its possible/it's possible > s/comments on ktime_get_boost_fast_ns function/comments in the ktime_get_boost_fast_ns() function > Thanks, I'll fix these up and repost. Regards, Joel > Thanks, > > Ingo