Re: [PATCH 0/2] printk, Add a printk.clock kernel parameter

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 08:00 -0500, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> Over the past years I've seen many reports of bugs that include
> time-stamped kernel logs (enabled when CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=y or
> print.time=1 is specified as a kernel parameter) that do not align
> with either external time stamped logs or /var/log/messages.
[]
> This patch introduces printk.clock=[local|boot|real|tai] allowing a
> user to specify an adjusted clock to use with printk timestamps.  The
> hardware clock, or the existing functionality, is preserved by default.

printk.c is already way too large.

Perhaps it would be reasonable to create a new
kernel/printk/timestamp.c file with these changes.

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