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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [Patch 1/4] Delay accounting: Initialization
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Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
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> +	*ts = sched_clock();

I'm not sure that it's kosher to use sched_clock() for fine-grained
timestamping like this.  Ingo had issues with it last time this happened?  

<too lazy to read all the code> Do you normalise these numbers in some
manner before presenting them to userspace?  If so, by what means?

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