From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH util-linux] dmesg: adjust timestamps according to suspended time
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 11:30:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200604093043.55a4zzo2hewhcwru@ws.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <159103929487.199093.15757669576783156290.stgit@buzz>
On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 10:21:34PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> Timestamps in kernel log comes from monotonic clocksource which does not
> tick when system suspended. Suspended time easily sums into hours and days
> rendering human readable timestamps in dmesg useless.
>
> Adjusting timestamps accouring to current delta between boottime and
> monotonic clocksources produces accurate timestamps for messages printed
> since last resume. Which are supposed to be most interesting.
It's definitely better than the current broken timestamps, but the real
and final solution is to have exact information about system suspends.
It would be enough to maintain in kernel memory a simple log with
<bootime> <monotonic> <state_change>
and export this info by /proc/suspendlog, after that we can all
re-count /dev/kmsg timestamps to something useful.
Karel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-04 9:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-01 19:21 [PATCH util-linux] dmesg: adjust timestamps according to suspended time Konstantin Khlebnikov
2020-06-04 9:30 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2020-06-04 9:43 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2020-06-04 10:21 ` Karel Zak
2020-06-04 9:35 ` Karel Zak
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