Re: CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME woes

[Paul Mackerras]

tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx writes:

> Earlier I said that it would be possible to provide a simplified
> do_gettimeofday() call that met the no locks requirement.  I still
> think this is possible, but most architectures would only get
> jiffie resolution from this (only ia64, sparc64 and HPET users
> have time interpolators registered).

ppc64 has a lockless do_gettimeofday() with microsecond resolution.

Paul.
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