RE: Ensuring wall_to_monotonic is not positive breaks use case

2018-09-24 Thread Rick Ratzel
On Sat, 15 Sep 2018, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > So reverting this is not really an option. > Maybe we can :) Thanks for checking into this more. We've been looking at the uses you described, and hopefully we can have something to submit for review (or at least discuss) relatively soon. >

Re: Ensuring wall_to_monotonic is not positive breaks use case

2018-09-15 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Thu, 6 Sep 2018, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2018, Rick Ratzel wrote: > > > We're looking for suggestions on how best to proceed with a new change > > that ideally both supports the use case described above, as well as > > addresses the symptoms brought up in the initial commit (nega

Re: Ensuring wall_to_monotonic is not positive breaks use case

2018-09-06 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Rick, On Wed, 5 Sep 2018, Rick Ratzel wrote: > We're looking for suggestions on how best to proceed with a new change > that ideally both supports the use case described above, as well as > addresses the symptoms brought up in the initial commit (negative boot > time causes get_expiry() to overfl

Ensuring wall_to_monotonic is not positive breaks use case

2018-09-05 Thread Rick Ratzel
Hello, We have a use case that was broken by the commit e1d7ba873555 (time: Always make sure wall_to_monotonic isn't positive). We've been reverting the commit in our builds, but we'd greatly prefer a solution consistent with the mainline. We also think our use case isn't unique to us, and ma