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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 01/19] kernel: Standardize vdso_datapage
To:     Huw Davies <huw@codeweavers.com>
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From:   Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
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Date:   Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:17:48 +0100
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Hi Huw,

thank you for your review.

On 10/06/2019 10:27, Huw Davies wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 03:15:13PM +0100, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/include/vdso/datapage.h
>> @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
>> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
>> +#ifndef __VDSO_DATAPAGE_H
>> +#define __VDSO_DATAPAGE_H
>> +
>> +#ifdef __KERNEL__
>> +
>> +#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
>> +
>> +#include <linux/bits.h>
>> +#include <linux/time.h>
>> +#include <linux/types.h>
>> +
>> +#define VDSO_BASES	(CLOCK_TAI + 1)
>> +#define VDSO_HRES	(BIT(CLOCK_REALTIME)		| \
>> +			 BIT(CLOCK_MONOTONIC)		| \
>> +			 BIT(CLOCK_BOOTTIME)		| \
>> +			 BIT(CLOCK_TAI))
>> +#define VDSO_COARSE	(BIT(CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE)	| \
>> +			 BIT(CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE))
>> +#define VDSO_RAW	(BIT(CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW))
>> +
>> +#define CS_HRES_COARSE	0
>> +#define CS_RAW		1
> 
> CS_HRES_COARSE seems like a confusing name choice to me.  What you
> really mean is not RAW.
> 
> How about CS_ADJ to indicate that its updated by adjtime?
> CS_XTIME might be another option.
> 

I divided the timers in 3 sets (HRES, COARSE, RAW), CS_HRES_COARSE refers to the
first two and CS_RAW to the third. I will ad a comment to explain the logic in
the next iteration.

> Huw.
> 

-- 
Regards,
Vincenzo