Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] timekeeping: Add clocksource to system_time_snapshot

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 15/10/19 22:13, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2019, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 15/10/19 12:48, Jianyong Wu wrote:
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>> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> You're sure about having reviewed that in detail?

I did review the patch; the void* ugliness is not in this one, and I do
have some other qualms on that one.

> This changelog is telling absolutely nothing WHY anything outside of the
> timekeeping core code needs access to the current clocksource. Neither does
> it tell why it is safe to provide the pointer to random callers.

Agreed on the changelog, but the pointer to a clocksource is already
part of the timekeeping external API via struct system_counterval_t.
get_device_system_crosststamp for example expects a clocksource pointer
but provides no way to get such a pointer.

Paolo