> They could be huge differences - unbounded, in fact.  It would make
> printk fairly hard to interpret,  I would think.  The only benefit to
> using sched_clock in printk is that if you're using it to work out the
> startup latencies you won't be confused by stolen time.  But I think
> that's a fairly small benefit compared to the disadvantage of not being
> able to meaningfully compare the timestamps on two printk messages.

Ok so the right solution would be a separate printk_clock() that is
implemented as the native sched_clock() even on Xen/VMI.  Should be a SMOP.

-Andi
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