From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] timens: show clock symbolic names in /proc/pid/timens_offsets
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:51:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKgNAkha+=3Lxq+AVsRqPNb9FxVEG4rx1wr=HfoV3RfosKi=Tw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200413154746.39275d0981f69e57a7ecab3e@linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 00:47, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 07:51:47 +0200 "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Andrei,
> >
> > On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 17:40, Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Michael Kerrisk suggested to replace numeric clock IDs on symbolic
> > > names.
> > >
> > > Now the content of these files looks like this:
> > > $ cat /proc/774/timens_offsets
> > > monotonic 864000 0
> > > boottime 1728000 0
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Assuming no-one has objections to the patch, please do mark for stable@.
> >
>
> `grep -r timens_offsets Documentation' comes up blank. Is
> /proc/pid/timens_offsets documented anywhere? If not, it should be!
> And this patch should update that documentation.
>
> I assume the time namespace feature itself is documented under clone(2)?
We're good, so far. There's time_namespaces(7) [1] and documentation
of CLONE_NEWTIME in unshare(2) [2].
CLONE_NEWTIME support for clone3() is still a work in progress [3].
Thanks,
Michael
[1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/time_namespaces.7.html
[2] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/unshare.2.html
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200317083043.226593-1-areber@redhat.com/
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-14 9:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-11 6:52 [PATCH] timens: show clock symbolic names in /proc/pid/timens_offsets Andrei Vagin
2020-04-11 10:32 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-04-11 10:36 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-04-11 15:40 ` [PATCH v2] " Andrei Vagin
2020-04-12 5:51 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-04-13 22:47 ` Andrew Morton
2020-04-14 0:04 ` Andrei Vagin
2020-04-14 9:51 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) [this message]
2020-04-16 6:56 ` Andrei Vagin
2020-04-16 7:10 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-04-16 9:52 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-04-16 10:15 ` [tip: timers/urgent] proc, time/namespace: Show " tip-bot2 for Andrei Vagin
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