Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] timekeeping: Add timekeeping_adjust_boottime

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Feb 10 2021 - 08:13:11 EST


On Wed, Feb 10 2021 at 19:39, Hikaru Nishida wrote:
> From: Hikaru Nishida <hikalium@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This introduces timekeeping_adjust_boottime() to give an interface to
> modules that enables to advance CLOCK_BOOTTIME from userspace for
> virtualized environments. Later patch introduces a sysfs interface
> which calls this function.

Not going to happen. That's just wrong in several ways.

The underlying problem of virt and timekeeping needs to be fixed not
hacked around it.

Thanks,

tglx