[PATCH 3/3] printk: using booting time as the timestamp

[Lei Wen]

As people may want to align the kernel log with some other processor
running over the same machine but not the same copy of linux, we
need to keep their log aligned, so that it would not make debug
process hard and confused.

Signed-off-by: Lei Wen <leiwen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/printk/printk.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index a45b509..af96fbd 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ static void log_store(int facility, int level,
 	if (ts_nsec > 0)
 		msg->ts_nsec = ts_nsec;
 	else
-		msg->ts_nsec = local_clock();
+		msg->ts_nsec = ktime_to_ns(ktime_get_boottime());
 	memset(log_dict(msg) + dict_len, 0, pad_len);
 	msg->len = size;
 
@@ -1440,7 +1440,7 @@ static bool cont_add(int facility, int level, const char *text, size_t len)
 		cont.facility = facility;
 		cont.level = level;
 		cont.owner = current;
-		cont.ts_nsec = local_clock();
+		cont.ts_nsec = ktime_to_ns(ktime_get_boottime());
 		cont.flags = 0;
 		cont.cons = 0;
 		cont.flushed = false;
-- 
1.8.3.2

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