On 17/07/2018 09:55, Baolin Wang wrote:
> On some hardware with multiple clocksources, we have coarse grained
> clocksources that support the CLOCK_SOURCE_SUSPEND_NONSTOP flag, but
> which are less than ideal for timekeeping whereas other clocksources
> can be better candidates but halt on suspend.
> 
> Currently, the timekeeping core only supports timing suspend using
> CLOCK_SOURCE_SUSPEND_NONSTOP clocksources if that clocksource is the
> current clocksource for timekeeping.
> 
> As a result, some architectures try to implement read_persistent_clock64()
> using those non-stop clocksources, but isn't really ideal, which will
> introduce more duplicate code. To fix this, provide logic to allow a
> registered SUSPEND_NONSTOP clocksource, which isn't the current
> clocksource, to be used to calculate the suspend time.
> 
> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <[email protected]>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Daniel Lezcano <[email protected]>


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