Re: [GIT pull] printk updates for 4.15

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Nov 17 2017 - 19:48:55 EST


On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Here you go. It survived suspend resume in a VM.

That looks almost too small.

If this were to allow us to basically unify BOOTTIME/MONOTONIC, that
would be lovely.

Should we just try it, with the understanding that we'll quite
possibly have to just revert?

Assuming this works, what would the "phase two" patch that actually
unifies the two (as opposed to make them have the same value) look
like?

Is that just basically just removing the dozen or so "offst_boot"
uses, or are there other possible simplifications?

Linus