Re: [patch V2 05/26] time: Introduce auxiliary POSIX clocks
From: John Stultz
Date: Thu Jun 12 2025 - 20:06:44 EST
On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> To support auxiliary timekeeping and the related user space interfaces,
> it's required to define a clock ID range for them.
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> Reserve 8 auxiliary clock IDs after the regular timekeeping clock ID space.
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> This is the maximum number of auxiliary clocks the kernel can support. The actual
> number of supported clocks depends obviously on the presence of related devices
> and might be constraint by the available VDSO space.
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> Add the corresponding timekeeper IDs as well.
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> Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
thanks
-john