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timekeeping: Replace read_boot_clock64() with read_persistent_wall_and_boot_offset()

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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
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Pavel Tatashin 2018-07-19 16:55:34 -04:00 • committed by Thomas Gleixner
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@ -243,7 +243,8 @@ extern void ktime_get_snapshot(struct system_time_snapshot *systime_snapshot);
extern int persistent_clock_is_local;
extern void read_persistent_clock64(struct timespec64 *ts);
extern void read_boot_clock64(struct timespec64 *ts);
void read_persistent_clock_and_boot_offset(struct timespec64 *wall_clock,
struct timespec64 *boot_offset);
extern int update_persistent_clock64(struct timespec64 now);
/*