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From: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
To: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	xen-devel@lists.xen.org,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] time: add a notifier chain for when the system time is stepped
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:50:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C886CF.4010001@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51C87B26.3010904@citrix.com>

On 06/24/2013 10:00 AM, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 24/06/13 17:30, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> @@ -508,7 +509,7 @@ int do_settimeofday(const struct timespec *tv)
>>   
>>   	tk_set_xtime(tk, tv);
>>   
>> -	timekeeping_update(tk, true, true);
>> +	timekeeping_update(tk, true, true, true);
> These three booleans in a row is getting a bit opaque. How about I also
> change it to a set of flags?  e.g.,
>
> timekeeping_updated(tk, TK_CLEAR_NTP | TK_MIRROR | TK_CLOCK_WAS_SET);

Yea. I'm not a fan of the bool arguments to functions (which I have to 
look up every time as which bool is which).

The bitflag approach is nicer in my mind, since its a bit more explicit 
when reading the code.

The other approach would be to have different function calls 
(timekeeping_clear_ntp, timekeeping_mirror, timekeeping_clock_was_set), 
which call into the same back end logic.

thanks
-john

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-24 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-20 19:16 [PATCHv5 0/4] xen: maintain an accurate persistent clock in more cases David Vrabel
2013-06-20 19:16 ` [PATCH 1/4] hrtimers: provide a hrtimers_late_resume() call David Vrabel
2013-06-21  7:53   ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-06-21 12:32     ` David Vrabel
2013-06-21 14:32       ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-06-21 17:30         ` David Vrabel
2013-06-21 21:24           ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-06-20 19:16 ` [PATCH 2/4] time: add a notifier chain for when the system time is stepped David Vrabel
2013-06-21  7:57   ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-06-21 12:41     ` David Vrabel
2013-06-21 23:06       ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-06-24 10:51         ` David Vrabel
2013-06-24 16:30           ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-06-24 17:00             ` David Vrabel
2013-06-24 17:50               ` John Stultz [this message]
2013-06-24 19:55               ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-06-21 16:22     ` John Stultz
2013-06-20 19:16 ` [PATCH 3/4] x86/xen: sync the wallclock " David Vrabel
2013-06-20 19:16 ` [PATCH 4/4] x86/xen: sync the CMOS RTC as well as the Xen wallclock David Vrabel
2013-06-20 20:03 ` [PATCHv5 0/4] xen: maintain an accurate persistent clock in more cases John Stultz
2013-06-21 18:31   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-06-19 15:25 [PATCHv4 " David Vrabel
2013-06-19 15:25 ` [PATCH 2/4] time: add a notifier chain for when the system time is stepped David Vrabel
2013-06-19 16:52   ` John Stultz
2013-06-19 17:13     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-06-19 17:38       ` John Stultz
2013-06-20 10:50     ` David Vrabel

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