From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751621AbdILOSD (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:18:03 -0400 Received: from mga04.intel.com ([192.55.52.120]:49600 "EHLO mga04.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751590AbdILOSC (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:18:02 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.42,383,1500966000"; d="scan'208";a="148291683" Message-ID: <1505225880.1331.5.camel@tzanussi-mobl.amr.corp.intel.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 38/40] tracing: Make tracing_set_clock() non-static From: Tom Zanussi To: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org, tglx@linutronix.de, namhyung@kernel.org, vedang.patel@intel.com, bigeasy@linutronix.de, joel.opensrc@gmail.com, joelaf@google.com, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, baohong.liu@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:18:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20170912111850.8536d7986d4f0c9dfaa210fc@kernel.org> References: <20170912111850.8536d7986d4f0c9dfaa210fc@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.4 (3.10.4-4.fc20) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2017-09-12 at 11:18 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 16:57:50 -0500 > Tom Zanussi wrote: > > > Allow tracing code outside of trace.c to access tracing_set_clock(). > > > > Some applications may require a particular clock in order to function > > properly, such as latency calculations. > > > > Also, add an accessor returning the current clock string. > > It seems this patch should be merged in the next patch, which > is actual consumer of this API. > Yeah, that might make more sense in this case. Thanks, Tom