Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Improve stability of system clock

From	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Improve stability of system clock
Date	2017-05-18 07:00 +0200
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On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 04:06:07PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Is there a better way to run the timekeeping code in an userspace
> > application? I suspect it would need something like the Linux Kernel
> > Library project.
> 
> I dunno. There's probably a cleaner way to go about it, but I also
> feel like the benefit of just having the test in the kernel tree is
> that it can be managed as a unified whole, rather then the test being
> a separate thing and always playing catchup to kernel changes.

I vaguely recall a rant on the list years ago from a Linux bigwhig
saying how we don't support that kind of thing.  But maybe it is my
imagination.  In any case, IMHO running user space tests for chunks of
kernel code can be quite useful.

Thanks,
Richard

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[PATCH RFC 0/3] Improve stability of system clock Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> - 2017-05-17 18:20 +0200
  [PATCH RFC 1/3] timekeeping: Remove support for old vsyscalls Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> - 2017-05-17 18:20 +0200
  [PATCH RFC 2/3] timekeeping: Don't align frequency adjustments to ticks Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> - 2017-05-17 18:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Improve stability of system clock John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2017-05-17 18:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Improve stability of system clock John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2017-05-17 19:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Improve stability of system clock Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> - 2017-05-17 19:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Improve stability of system clock John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2017-05-18 01:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Improve stability of system clock Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 07:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Improve stability of system clock John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2017-05-20 02:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Improve stability of system clock Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> - 2017-05-22 02:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Improve stability of system clock Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> - 2017-05-17 19:10 +0200

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