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During early boot the NMI safe timekeeper returns 0 until the first clocksource becomes available. This prevents it from being used for printk or other facilities which today use sched clock. sched clock can be available way before timekeeping is initialized. The obvious workaround for this is to utilize the early sched clock in the default dummy clock read function until a clocksource becomes available. After switching to the clocksource clock MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME will not jump because the timekeeping_init() bases clock MONOTONIC on sched clock and the offset between clock MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME is zero during boot. Clock REALTIME cannot provide useful timestamps during early boot up to the point where a persistent clock becomes available, which is either in timekeeping_init() or later when the RTC driver which might depend on I2C or other subsystems is initialized. There is a minor difference to sched_clock() vs. suspend/resume. As the timekeeper clock source might not be accessible during suspend, after timekeeping_suspend() timestamps freeze up to the point where timekeeping_resume() is invoked. OTOH this is true for some sched clock implementations as well. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200814115512.041422402@linutronix.de
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.