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    timekeeping: Replace read_boot_clock64() with read_persistent_wall_and_boot_offset() · 3eca9937
    Pavel Tatashin authored
    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: default avatarPavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas 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
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