Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Apr 2010 13:58:54 -0700 | Subject | Re: re-adding clocksource_get_next ? | From | john stultz <> |
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On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> wrote: > Hello! > this function was removed in the past but I've not clear all the details. > While testing LLTng, I wrote the patch, in attachment, that re-adds it > again. > The clocksource_get_next returns the first clock source available > (without looking at the rating). > In my environment, a clock source is a TMU channel (e.g. TMU1) and, > indeed, clocksource_get_next works fine.
Could you provide some more details as to why you need raw access to the clocksource, instead of using something like ktime_get(), getrawmonotonic() or sched_clock()?
thanks -john
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