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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  */
59 struct timecounter {
60 	const struct cyclecounter *cc;
61 	cycle_t cycle_last;
62 	u64 nsec;
63 };
64 
65 /**
66  * cyclecounter_cyc2ns - converts cycle counter cycles to nanoseconds
67  * @cc:		Pointer to cycle counter.
68  * @cycles:	Cycles
69  *
70  * XXX - This could use some mult_lxl_ll() asm optimization. Same code
71  * as in cyc2ns, but with unsigned result.
72  */
73 static inline u64 cyclecounter_cyc2ns(const struct cyclecounter *cc,
74 				      cycle_t cycles)
75 {
76 	u64 ret = (u64)cycles;
77 	ret = (ret * cc->mult) >> cc->shift;
78 	return ret;
79 }
80 
81 /**
82  * timecounter_adjtime - Shifts the time of the clock.
83  * @delta:	Desired change in nanoseconds.
84  */
85 static inline void timecounter_adjtime(struct timecounter *tc, s64 delta)
86 {
87 	tc->nsec += delta;
88 }
89 
90 /**
91  * timecounter_init - initialize a time counter
92  * @tc:			Pointer to time counter which is to be initialized/reset
93  * @cc:			A cycle counter, ready to be used.
94  * @start_tstamp:	Arbitrary initial time stamp.
95  *
96  * After this call the current cycle register (roughly) corresponds to
97  * the initial time stamp. Every call to timecounter_read() increments
98  * the time stamp counter by the number of elapsed nanoseconds.
99  */
100 extern void timecounter_init(struct timecounter *tc,
101 			     const struct cyclecounter *cc,
102 			     u64 start_tstamp);
103 
104 /**
105  * timecounter_read - return nanoseconds elapsed since timecounter_init()
106  *                    plus the initial time stamp
107  * @tc:          Pointer to time counter.
108  *
109  * In other words, keeps track of time since the same epoch as
110  * the function which generated the initial time stamp.
111  */
112 extern u64 timecounter_read(struct timecounter *tc);
113 
114 /**
115  * timecounter_cyc2time - convert a cycle counter to same
116  *                        time base as values returned by
117  *                        timecounter_read()
118  * @tc:		Pointer to time counter.
119  * @cycle_tstamp:	a value returned by tc->cc->read()
120  *
121  * Cycle counts that are converted correctly as long as they
122  * fall into the interval [-1/2 max cycle count, +1/2 max cycle count],
123  * with "max cycle count" == cs->mask+1.
124  *
125  * This allows conversion of cycle counter values which were generated
126  * in the past.
127  */
128 extern u64 timecounter_cyc2time(struct timecounter *tc,
129 				cycle_t cycle_tstamp);
130 
131 #endif
132