proc, time/namespace: Show clock symbolic names in /proc/pid/timens_offsets
authorAndrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:40:31 +0000 (08:40 -0700)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thu, 16 Apr 2020 10:10:54 +0000 (12:10 +0200)
commit94d440d618467806009c8edc70b094d64e12ee5a
tree400e92a597865e29a0875cc2015c7d3c94fd10d0
parent8f3d9f354286745c751374f5f1fcafee6b3f3136
proc, time/namespace: Show clock symbolic names in /proc/pid/timens_offsets

Michael Kerrisk suggested to replace numeric clock IDs with symbolic names.

Now the content of these files looks like this:
$ cat /proc/774/timens_offsets
monotonic      864000         0
boottime      1728000         0

For setting offsets, both representations of clocks (numeric and symbolic)
can be used.

As for compatibility, it is acceptable to change things as long as
userspace doesn't care. The format of timens_offsets files is very new and
there are no userspace tools yet which rely on this format.

But three projects crun, util-linux and criu rely on the interface of
setting time offsets and this is why it's required to continue supporting
the numeric clock IDs on write.

Fixes: 04a8682a71be ("fs/proc: Introduce /proc/pid/timens_offsets")
Suggested-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200411154031.642557-1-avagin@gmail.com
fs/proc/base.c
kernel/time/namespace.c