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SubjectRe: [PATCHv2 1/2] timekeeping: Provide new API to get the current time resolution
Am 08.04.2015 um 00:30 schrieb Richard Weinberger:
> Am 07.04.2015 um 13:12 schrieb Harald Geyer:
>> This patch series introduces a new function
>> u32 ktime_get_resolution_ns(void)
>> which allows to clean up some driver code.
>>
>> In particular the IIO subsystem has a function to provide timestamps for
>> events but no means to get their resolution. So currently the dht11 driver
>> tries to guess the resolution in a rather messy and convoluted way. We
>> can do much better with the new code.
>>
>> This API is not designed to be exposed to user space.
>>
>> This has been tested on i386, sunxi and mxs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Harald Geyer <harald@ccbib.org>
>> ---
>> changes since V1:
>> Improved commit message.
>>
>> include/linux/timekeeping.h | 1 +
>> kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>> 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/timekeeping.h b/include/linux/timekeeping.h
>> index 3eaae47..983b61e 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/timekeeping.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/timekeeping.h
>> @@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ extern ktime_t ktime_get(void);
>> extern ktime_t ktime_get_with_offset(enum tk_offsets offs);
>> extern ktime_t ktime_mono_to_any(ktime_t tmono, enum tk_offsets offs);
>> extern ktime_t ktime_get_raw(void);
>> +extern u32 ktime_get_resolution_ns(void);
>>
>> /**
>> * ktime_get_real - get the real (wall-) time in ktime_t format
>> diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
>> index 91db941..8efd964 100644
>> --- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
>> +++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
>> @@ -586,6 +586,23 @@ ktime_t ktime_get(void)
>> }
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ktime_get);
>>
>> +u32 ktime_get_resolution_ns(void)
>> +{
>> + struct timekeeper *tk = &tk_core.timekeeper;
>> + unsigned int seq;
>> + u32 nsecs;
>> +
>> + WARN_ON(timekeeping_suspended);
>> +
>> + do {
>> + seq = read_seqcount_begin(&tk_core.seq);
>> + nsecs = tk->tkr.mult >> tk->tkr.shift;
>> + } while (read_seqcount_retry(&tk_core.seq, seq));
>> +
>> + return nsecs;
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ktime_get_resolution_ns);
>
> Hmm, isn't this ktime_get_raw_ns()?

Whoops, it is of course not the same.

Thanks,
//richard


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