On Wednesday, April 25, 2018 9:09:29 PM CEST Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2018, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 6:45 AM, tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner > > <tipbot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > As stated in the pull request for the unification of CLOCK_MONOTONIC and > > > CLOCK_BOOTTIME, it was clear that we might have to revert the change. > > > > I'm ok with the revert., but I do want the revert message to talk > > about *exactly* what broke. > > > > I don't see the reported watchdog things, and I run systemd and I ran > > these patches. > > With suspend/resume? > > > So it's not just "systemd uses this for a watchdog". It must be > > something specific that made it trigger for some people and not > > others, and it's that specific thing that we should document so that > > we know why this simplification failed. > > Fair enough. Do the reporters have more information or do I have to chase > it down myself? Well, if CLOCK_MONOTONIC did not count when the system was suspended and now it does that due to the change in question, then this is a significant difference in behavior likely to confuse things even in principle. While it may not confuse things on some systems after all, does this really matter? Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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