Re: [RFC patch 7/7] timekeeping: Hack to use fine grained timestamps during boot

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2017, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> On 11/23/2017 07:58 AM, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > On Wed 2017-11-15 19:15:38, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >> For demonstration purposes only.
> >>
> >> Add a disgusting hack to work around the fact that high resolution clock
> >> MONOTONIC accessors are not available during early boot and return stale
> >> time stamps accross suspend/resume when the current clocksource is not
> >> flagged with CLOCK_SOURCE_SUSPEND_ACCESS_OK.
> >>
> >> Use local_clock() to provide timestamps in early boot and when the
> >> clocksource is not accessible after timekeeping_suspend(). In the
> >> suspend/resume case this might cause non monotonic timestamps.
> > 
> > I get the non-monotonic times even during boot:
> > 
> > [    0.026709] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
> > [    0.027973] x86: Booting SMP configuration:
> > [    0.028006] .... node  #0, CPUs:      #1
> > [    0.004000] kvm-clock: cpu 1, msr 1:3ff51041, secondary cpu clock
> >      ^^^^^^^^

Which is interesting as this should happen even w/o those patches. 

Thanks,

	tglx