[LTP] [PATCH] kernel: use ktime_get_real_ts64() to calculate acct.ac_btime

Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org
Thu Nov 7 13:49:18 CET 2019


On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 09:56:12AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> But it would be way simpler just to store the CLOCK_REALTIME start time
> along with BOOT and MONOTONIC and just get rid of all these horrible
> calculations which are bound to be wrong.
> 
> Peter?

So I'd really hate to do that, as that gives the impression REALTIME is
a sane clock to use. As I argued in that other email, REALTIME is
horrible crap.



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