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PPS (Pulse Per Second) generates a hardware pulse every second based on
CLOCK_REALTIME. This works fine when the pulse is generated in software
from a hrtimer callback function.
For hardware which generates the pulse by programming a timer it is
required to convert CLOCK_REALTIME to the underlying hardware clock.
The X86 Timed IO device is based on the Always Running Timer (ART), which
is the base clock of the TSC, which is usually the system clocksource on
X86.
The core code already has functionality to convert base clock timestamps to
system clocksource timestamps, but there is no support for converting the
other way around.
Provide the required functionality to support such devices in a generic
way to avoid code duplication in drivers:
1) ktime_real_to_base_clock() to convert a CLOCK_REALTIME timestamp to a
base clock timestamp
2) timekeeping_clocksource_has_base() to allow drivers to validate that
the system clocksource is based on a particular clocksource ID.
[ tglx: Simplify timekeeping_clocksource_has_base() and add missing READ_ONCE() ]
Co-developed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Co-developed-by: Christopher S. Hall <christopher.s.hall@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christopher S. Hall <christopher.s.hall@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lakshmi Sowjanya D <lakshmi.sowjanya.d@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240513103813.5666-10-lakshmi.sowjanya.d@intel.com
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.