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    sched: sched_clock_idle_[sleep|wakeup]_event() · 2aa44d05
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    construct a more or less wall-clock time out of sched_clock(), by
    using ACPI-idle's existing knowledge about how much time we spent
    idling. This allows the rq clock to work around TSC-stops-in-C2,
    TSC-gets-corrupted-in-C3 type of problems.
    
    ( Besides the scheduler's statistics this also benefits blktrace and
      printk-timestamps as well. )
    
    Furthermore, the precise before-C2/C3-sleep and after-C2/C3-wakeup
    callbacks allow the scheduler to get out the most of the period where
    the CPU has a reliable TSC. This results in slightly more precise
    task statistics.
    
    the ACPI bits were acked by Len.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Acked-by: default avatarLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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