On (08/07/17 11:52), Prarit Bhargava wrote: [..] > +/** > + * enum printk_time_type - Timestamp types for printk() messages. > + * @PRINTK_TIME_DISABLE: No time stamp. > + * @PRINTK_TIME_LOCAL: Local hardware clock timestamp. > + * @PRINTK_TIME_BOOT: Boottime clock timestamp. > + * @PRINTK_TIME_MONO: Monotonic clock timestamp. > + * @PRINTK_TIME_REAL: Realtime clock timestamp. On 32-bit > + * systems selecting the real clock printk timestamp may lead to unlikely > + * situations where a timestamp is wrong because the real time offset is read > + * without the protection of a sequence lock in the call to ktime_get_log_ts() > + * in printk_get_ts() below. > + */ > +enum printk_time_type { > + PRINTK_TIME_DISABLE = 0, > + PRINTK_TIME_LOCAL = 1, > + PRINTK_TIME_BOOT = 2, > + PRINTK_TIME_MONO = 3, > + PRINTK_TIME_REAL = 4, > +}; may be call the entire thing 'timestamp surces' or something? [..] > + if (strlen(param) == 1) { > + /* Preserve legacy boolean settings */ > + if (!strcmp("0", param) || !strcmp("n", param) || > + !strcmp("N", param)) > + _printk_time = PRINTK_TIME_DISABLE; > + if (!strcmp("1", param) || !strcmp("y", param) || > + !strcmp("Y", param)) > + _printk_time = PRINTK_TIME_LOCAL; > + } > + if (_printk_time == -1) { > + for (stamp = 0; stamp <= 4; stamp++) { > + if (!strncmp(printk_time_str[stamp], param, > + strlen(param))) { > + _printk_time = stamp; > + break; > + } > + } > + } you can use match_string() here. > + if (_printk_time == -1) { > + pr_warn("printk: invalid timestamp value %s\n", param); > + return -EINVAL; > + } `invalid timestamp value' is confusing. > + } else if ((printk_time_setting != _printk_time) && > + (_printk_time != 0)) { > + pr_warn("printk: timestamp can only be set to 0(disabled) or %s\n", > + printk_time_str[printk_time_setting]); ditto. > + return -EINVAL; > + } > + > + printk_time = _printk_time; > + pr_info("printk: timestamp set to %s\n", printk_time_str[printk_time]); ditto. [..] > +static u64 printk_get_ts(void) > +{ > + u64 mono, offset_real; > + > + if (printk_time <= PRINTK_TIME_LOCAL) > + return local_clock(); > + > + if (printk_time == PRINTK_TIME_BOOT) > + return ktime_get_boot_log_ts(); > + > + mono = ktime_get_real_log_ts(&offset_real); > + > + if (printk_time == PRINTK_TIME_MONO) > + return mono; > + > + return mono + offset_real; > +} this looks hard... > +static int printk_time; > +static int printk_time_setting; how about s/printk_time_setting/printk_time_source/? or something similar? -ss -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html