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From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 30 May 2018 16:25:07 +0300
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Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] x86, tsc: Enable clock for ealry printk timestamp
To:     Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
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On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 12:20 PM, Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> wrote:
> To show time info in kernel log earlier and help optimizing kernel
> boot time, printk adds a debug hook "boot_printk_clock_fn()"  for
> capable platform which has accurate clock in early boot phase.
>
> This patch will add early param setup option, so that user can
> chose to provide a tsc based early printk clock simply by adding
> in command line: "boot_tsc=xxxxM" (xxxxM is the stable TSC freq).

> +

This line is not needed.

> +       cur_tsc = rdtsc();
> +       cur_tsc -= boot_tsc_offset;

In one expression?

> +       if (!p)
> +               return -EINVAL;
> +

I'm not sure it's needed at all.

> +       boot_tsc_mhz = div64_u64(tsc_hz, 1024 * 1024);

Hmm... 1024*1024 != 1000 * 1000. So, hz -> mhz here (as by suffixes)
looks weird.

> +       if (boot_tsc_mhz == 0)
> +               return -EINVAL;

> +       pr_info("TSC has run for %lld us\n",
> +               div64_u64(boot_tsc_offset, boot_tsc_mhz));
> +
> +       /* Setup the early printk clock */
> +       boot_printk_clock_fn = boot_tsc_clock;

> +       pr_info("TSC: Setup early printk timestamp with %lldM TSC.",
> +               boot_tsc_mhz);

Perhaps remove period (above doesn't have it) and move this to one line?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko