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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-06-12 16:53:38 +1000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-06-12 16:53:38 +1000
commitbc47ab0241c7c86da4f5e5f82fbca7d45387c18d (patch)
treeb9c33ae8b6de43e44cc5fcbaa3e4a15f18a5ed42 /include/linux/time.h
parent37f9ef553bed630957e025504cdcbc76f5de49d5 (diff)
parent8ebf975608aaebd7feb33d77f07ba21a6380e086 (diff)
Merge commit 'origin/master' into next
Manual merge of: arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/time.h')
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diff --git a/include/linux/time.h b/include/linux/time.h
index 242f62499bb..ea16c1a01d5 100644
--- a/include/linux/time.h
+++ b/include/linux/time.h
@@ -113,6 +113,21 @@ struct timespec current_kernel_time(void);
#define CURRENT_TIME (current_kernel_time())
#define CURRENT_TIME_SEC ((struct timespec) { get_seconds(), 0 })
+/* Some architectures do not supply their own clocksource.
+ * This is mainly the case in architectures that get their
+ * inter-tick times by reading the counter on their interval
+ * timer. Since these timers wrap every tick, they're not really
+ * useful as clocksources. Wrapping them to act like one is possible
+ * but not very efficient. So we provide a callout these arches
+ * can implement for use with the jiffies clocksource to provide
+ * finer then tick granular time.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET
+extern u32 arch_gettimeoffset(void);
+#else
+static inline u32 arch_gettimeoffset(void) { return 0; }
+#endif
+
extern void do_gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv);
extern int do_settimeofday(struct timespec *tv);
extern int do_sys_settimeofday(struct timespec *tv, struct timezone *tz);