Re: [tip:core/printk] printk: Add monotonic, boottime, and realtime timestamps

From: Prarit Bhargava
Date: Tue Sep 26 2017 - 11:43:20 EST


On 09/26/2017 11:33 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>> On 09/26/2017 11:26 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 09/26/2017 04:42 AM, tip-bot for Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>>>>> Commit-ID: 310b454a8653ea60d3eb21ce5ab03a282a32fbe1
>>>>> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/310b454a8653ea60d3eb21ce5ab03a282a32fbe1
>>>>> Author: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> AuthorDate: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:51:00 -0400
>>>>> Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> CommitDate: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:38:07 +0200
>>>>>
>>>>> printk: Add monotonic, boottime, and realtime timestamps
>>>>>
>>>>> printk.time=1/CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=1 adds a unmodified local hardware clock
>>>>> timestamp to printk messages. The local hardware clock loses time each
>>>>> day making it difficult to determine exactly when an issue has occurred in
>>>>> the kernel log, and making it difficult to determine how kernel and
>>>>> hardware issues relate to each other.
>>>>>
>>>>> Make printk output different timestamps by adding options for no timestamp,
>>>>> the local hardware clock, monotonic clock, boottime clock, and clock
>>>>> realtime. The default clock can be selected via:
>>>>>
>>>>> - Kconfig
>>>>> - Kernel command line parameter
>>>>> - Sysfs file
>>>>>
>>>>> Note, that existing user space tools might be confused by selecting clock
>>>>> realtime, so handle with care.
>>>>
>>>> pmladek found a compile warning due to printk_time being unused. I will post a
>>>> v14 on LKML shortly.
>>>
>>> Errm. I applied v12. where the heck is v13?
>>>
>>> And in the applied patch printk_time is used.....
>>
>> Sorry, my mistake I meant v13.
>>
>> This morning pmladek posted about a warning when when CONFIG_PRINTK is not defined:
>>
>> https://marc.info/?l=linux-doc&m=150642667403344&w=2
>>
>> I'm fixing it now for v13.
>
> Please send a delta patch.
>

Will do.

P.