Re: [RFC PATCH] drivers: char: Add a dynamic clock for the traceclock

[Josh Triplett]

On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 04:34:11PM -0800, Sonny Rao wrote:
> Based on a suggestion from John Stultz.
> 
> This adds a dynamic clock device which can be used with clock_gettime
> to sample the clock source used for time stamping trace events in the
> kernel.  The only use for this clock source is to associate user space
> events with kernel events on a given kernel.  It is explicitly not
> supposed to be used as a generic time source and won't necessarily be
> consistent between kernels.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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