Re: [RFC patch 7/7] timekeeping: Hack to use fine grained timestamps during boot

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Nov 28 2017 - 14:45:08 EST


On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 11:10:02 -0800
Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There is no guarantee of sequential order of delivery for kernel prints.

But isn't the timestamp taken with the logbuf_lock, and then delivered
to the printk buffer? That would guarantee that all events will be in
order, and the timestamps be sequential. They are serialized by the
logbuf_lock.

-- Steve