Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756438Ab0LPPwQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:52:16 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.8]:61931 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752989Ab0LPPwO (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:52:14 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Richard Cochran Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 2/8] posix clocks: introduce a syscall for clock tuning. Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:51:31 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-22-generic; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , Christoph Lameter , David Miller , John Stultz , Krzysztof Halasa , Peter Zijlstra , Rodolfo Giometti , Thomas Gleixner References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201012161651.31748.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:vScenfOQRtgD6nusQFZcn/9eiHR/dv5n4oQuZw35z+U 5u2Yzme4+ksmQC3MMLX80vMga8pig2Ss4nxxE/Vgsp5Q64zhMf AT4jBqh/+IZIXCpSKwuV7sCd3k3ztrDMXcCxchMbyuBgcZDaKq ywLRUQGjetY+eGzzKhN2tph3UWOEPCbU4t9+flsxY7q6Df63pn K1q9xeWm3VzJxIF1Nx60Q== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 958 Lines: 23 On Thursday 16 December 2010, Richard Cochran wrote: > A new syscall is introduced that allows tuning of a POSIX clock. The > syscall is implemented for four architectures: arm, blackfin, powerpc, > and x86. > > The new syscall, clock_adjtime, takes two parameters, the clock ID, > and a pointer to a struct timex. Any ADJTIMEX(2) operation may be > requested via this system call, but various POSIX clocks may or may > not support tuning. > > Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran The syscall implementation looks good to me. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann It would be good to add it to include/asm-generic/unistd.h as well, so that tile and future architectures get it, too. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/