Pavel Tatashin
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If architecture does not support exact boot time, it is challenging to estimate boot time without having a reference to the current persistent clock value. Yet, it cannot read the persistent clock time again, because this may lead to math discrepancies with the caller of read_boot_clock64() who have read the persistent clock at a different time. This is why it is better to provide two values simultaneously: the persistent clock value, and the boot time. Replace read_boot_clock64() with: read_persistent_wall_and_boot_offset(wall_time, boot_offset) Where wall_time is returned by read_persistent_clock() And boot_offset is wall_time - boot time, which defaults to 0. Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: steven.sistare@oracle.com Cc: daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com Cc: linux@armlinux.org.uk Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org Cc: sboyd@codeaurora.org Cc: hpa@zytor.com Cc: douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: prarit@redhat.com Cc: feng.tang@intel.com Cc: pmladek@suse.com Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Cc: jgross@suse.com Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180719205545.16512-16-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.