Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] perf: Use monotonic clock as a source for timestamps

[Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>]

On Thu, 2014-11-27 at 15:05 +0000, Pawel Moll wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-11-06 at 16:51 +0000, Pawel Moll wrote:
> > Until now, perf framework never defined the meaning of the timestamps
> > captured as PERF_SAMPLE_TIME sample type. The values were obtaining
> > from local (sched) clock, which is unavailable in userspace. This made
> > it impossible to correlate perf data with any other events. Other
> > tracing solutions have the source configurable (ftrace) or just share
> > a common time domain between kernel and userspace (LTTng).
> > 
> > Follow the trend by using monotonic clock, which is readily available
> > as POSIX CLOCK_MONOTONIC.
> > 
> > Also add a sysctl "perf_sample_time_clk_id" attribute which can be used
> > by the user to obtain the clk_id to be used with POSIX clock API (eg.
> > clock_gettime()) to obtain a time value comparable with perf samples.
> > 
> > Old behaviour can be restored by using "perf_use_local_clock" kernel
> > parameter.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
> 
> It's been 3 weeks without any negative feedback (no feedback at all, but
> I take the optimistic view :-)...
> 
> How about queuing at least this patch alone for the incoming merge
> window? Or at least getting it into -next, with the view at 3.20?

It's been another two weeks... How about getting it queued for v3.20
then?

Pawel