Re: printing current system time from kernel space

[George Nychis]

Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> George Nychis wrote:
> > I spent some time googling, but could not find out how or if it is 
> > possible to read the current system time in kernel space.  I could 
> > insert a printk() somewhere in usbdev_read() then.
>
> If that's what you want to do could you not turn on timestamps on printk 
> (CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME in the kernel hacking menu)?

Thanks for the response!

You might be misunderstanding my goal.  I need a common clock between 
kernel and user space, so that I can say:

Event1 happened at time X in the kernel
Event2 happened at time X+Y in user space
The time between Event1 and Event2 was Y-X

So, turning off timestamps does not help anything here :)

What might be useful is if user space can read the current timestamp 
value that printk uses, that way I can just do a printk in the kernel 
and then read the value and print in user space.

Is this possible?

Thanks!
George
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