Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/6] Cleanup hrtimer.c's direct access to wall_to_monotonic

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>]

On Saturday 05 June 2010, John Stultz wrote:
>         do {
>                 seq = read_seqbegin(&xtime_lock);
>                 xts = __current_kernel_time();
> -               tom = wall_to_monotonic;
> +               tom = __get_wall_to_monotonic();
>         } while (read_seqretry(&xtime_lock, seq));
>  

Would it make sense to also limit the use of xtime_lock to the
timekeeping code? I suppose you could merge the various accessors
(current_kernel_time, get_monotonic_coarse, __current_kernel_time,
__get_wall_to_monotonic) with a single function doing

struct timespec current_kernel_time(struct timespec *tomono)
{
        struct timespec now;
        unsigned long seq;

        do {
                seq = read_seqbegin(&xtime_lock);
		if (tomono)
			wall_to_monotonic;
                now = xtime;
        } while (read_seqretry(&xtime_lock, seq));

        return now;
}

	Arnd