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1 /*
2  * linux/include/linux/timecounter.h
3  *
4  * based on code that migrated away from
5  * linux/include/linux/clocksource.h
6  *
7  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9  * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
10  * (at your option) any later version.
11  *
12  * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13  * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14  * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
15  * GNU General Public License for more details.
16  */
17 #ifndef _LINUX_TIMECOUNTER_H
18 #define _LINUX_TIMECOUNTER_H
19 
20 #include <linux/types.h>
21 
22 /**
23  * struct cyclecounter - hardware abstraction for a free running counter
24  *	Provides completely state-free accessors to the underlying hardware.
25  *	Depending on which hardware it reads, the cycle counter may wrap
26  *	around quickly. Locking rules (if necessary) have to be defined
27  *	by the implementor and user of specific instances of this API.
28  *
29  * @read:		returns the current cycle value
30  * @mask:		bitmask for two's complement
31  *			subtraction of non 64 bit counters,
32  *			see CLOCKSOURCE_MASK() helper macro
33  * @mult:		cycle to nanosecond multiplier
34  * @shift:		cycle to nanosecond divisor (power of two)
35  */
36 struct cyclecounter {
37 	cycle_t (*read)(const struct cyclecounter *cc);
38 	cycle_t mask;
39 	u32 mult;
40 	u32 shift;
41 };
42 
43 /**
44  * struct timecounter - layer above a %struct cyclecounter which counts nanoseconds
45  *	Contains the state needed by timecounter_read() to detect
46  *	cycle counter wrap around. Initialize with
47  *	timecounter_init(). Also used to convert cycle counts into the
48  *	corresponding nanosecond counts with timecounter_cyc2time(). Users
49  *	of this code are responsible for initializing the underlying
50  *	cycle counter hardware, locking issues and reading the time
51  *	more often than the cycle counter wraps around. The nanosecond
52  *	counter will only wrap around after ~585 years.
53  *
54  * @cc:			the cycle counter used by this instance
55  * @cycle_last:		most recent cycle counter value seen by
56  *			timecounter_read()
57  * @nsec:		continuously increasing count
58  * @mask:		bit mask for maintaining the 'frac' field
59  * @frac:		accumulated fractional nanoseconds
60  */
61 struct timecounter {
62 	const struct cyclecounter *cc;
63 	cycle_t cycle_last;
64 	u64 nsec;
65 	u64 mask;
66 	u64 frac;
67 };
68 
69 /**
70  * cyclecounter_cyc2ns - converts cycle counter cycles to nanoseconds
71  * @cc:		Pointer to cycle counter.
72  * @cycles:	Cycles
73  * @mask:	bit mask for maintaining the 'frac' field
74  * @frac:	pointer to storage for the fractional nanoseconds.
75  */
76 static inline u64 cyclecounter_cyc2ns(const struct cyclecounter *cc,
77 				      cycle_t cycles, u64 mask, u64 *frac)
78 {
79 	u64 ns = (u64) cycles;
80 
81 	ns = (ns * cc->mult) + *frac;
82 	*frac = ns & mask;
83 	return ns >> cc->shift;
84 }
85 
86 /**
87  * timecounter_adjtime - Shifts the time of the clock.
88  * @delta:	Desired change in nanoseconds.
89  */
90 static inline void timecounter_adjtime(struct timecounter *tc, s64 delta)
91 {
92 	tc->nsec += delta;
93 }
94 
95 /**
96  * timecounter_init - initialize a time counter
97  * @tc:			Pointer to time counter which is to be initialized/reset
98  * @cc:			A cycle counter, ready to be used.
99  * @start_tstamp:	Arbitrary initial time stamp.
100  *
101  * After this call the current cycle register (roughly) corresponds to
102  * the initial time stamp. Every call to timecounter_read() increments
103  * the time stamp counter by the number of elapsed nanoseconds.
104  */
105 extern void timecounter_init(struct timecounter *tc,
106 			     const struct cyclecounter *cc,
107 			     u64 start_tstamp);
108 
109 /**
110  * timecounter_read - return nanoseconds elapsed since timecounter_init()
111  *                    plus the initial time stamp
112  * @tc:          Pointer to time counter.
113  *
114  * In other words, keeps track of time since the same epoch as
115  * the function which generated the initial time stamp.
116  */
117 extern u64 timecounter_read(struct timecounter *tc);
118 
119 /**
120  * timecounter_cyc2time - convert a cycle counter to same
121  *                        time base as values returned by
122  *                        timecounter_read()
123  * @tc:		Pointer to time counter.
124  * @cycle_tstamp:	a value returned by tc->cc->read()
125  *
126  * Cycle counts that are converted correctly as long as they
127  * fall into the interval [-1/2 max cycle count, +1/2 max cycle count],
128  * with "max cycle count" == cs->mask+1.
129  *
130  * This allows conversion of cycle counter values which were generated
131  * in the past.
132  */
133 extern u64 timecounter_cyc2time(struct timecounter *tc,
134 				cycle_t cycle_tstamp);
135 
136 #endif
137