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From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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On 14/10/19 07:50, Jianyong Wu (Arm Technology China) wrote:
>>
>> John (Stultz), does that sound good to you?  The context is that Jianyon=
g
>> would like to add a hypercall that returns a (cycles,
>> nanoseconds) pair to the guest.  On x86 we're relying on the vclock_mode
>> field that is already there for the vDSO, but being able to just use
>> ktime_get_snapshot would be much nicer.
>>
> Could I add struct clocksource to system_time_snapshot struct in next ver=
sion of my patch set?

Yes, I say go ahead.  At least it will get closer to a final design.

Paolo