Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Introduce a way to adjust CLOCK_BOOTTIME from userspace for VM guests

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Feb 10 2021 - 05:53:23 EST


On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 07:39:06PM +0900, Hikaru Nishida wrote:
> From: Hikaru Nishida <hikalium@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> We'd like to add a sysfs interface that enable us to advance
> CLOCK_BOOTTIME from userspace.

Why sysfs? What device is the clock that you are attaching to here?
Why not use the existing kernel api to adjust clocks?

thanks,

greg k-h