kernel/linux.git/include/linux/timecounter.h, branch v6.19.11

time/timecounter: Fix the lie that struct cyclecounter is const

2025-07-01T13:38:25+00:00

In both the read callback for struct cyclecounter, and in struct timecounter, struct cyclecounter is declared as a const pointer. Unfortunatly, a number of users of this pointer treat it as a non-const pointer as it is burried in a larger structure that is heavily modified by the callback function when accessed. This lie had been hidden by the fact that container_of() "casts away" a const attribute of a pointer without any compiler warning happening at all. Fix this all up by removing the const attribute in the needed places so that everyone can see that the structure really isn't const, but can, and is, modified by the users of it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2025070124-backyard-hurt-783a@gregkh

time/timecounter: Fix inline documentation

2024-04-01T08:36:34+00:00

Fix kernel-doc warnings, text punctuation, and a kernel-doc marker (change '%' to '&' to indicate a struct): timecounter.h:72: warning: No description found for return value of 'cyclecounter_cyc2ns' timecounter.h:85: warning: Function parameter or member 'tc' not described in 'timecounter_adjtime' timecounter.h:111: warning: No description found for return value of 'timecounter_read' timecounter.h:128: warning: No description found for return value of 'timecounter_cyc2time' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240331172652.14086-2-rdunlap@infradead.org

time/timecounter: Mark 1st argument of timecounter_cyc2time() as const

2021-04-16T19:03:50+00:00

The timecounter is not modified in this function. Mark it as const. Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210303103544.994855-1-mkl@pengutronix.de

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 157

2019-05-30T18:26:37+00:00

Based on 3 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at your option any later version this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at your option any later version [author] [kishon] [vijay] [abraham] [i] [kishon]@[ti] [com] this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at your option any later version [author] [graeme] [gregory] [gg]@[slimlogic] [co] [uk] [author] [kishon] [vijay] [abraham] [i] [kishon]@[ti] [com] [based] [on] [twl6030]_[usb] [c] [author] [hema] [hk] [hemahk]@[ti] [com] this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-or-later has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1105 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Allison Randal Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.202006027@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

clocksource: Use a plain u64 instead of cycle_t

2016-12-25T10:04:12+00:00

There is no point in having an extra type for extra confusion. u64 is unambiguous. Conversion was done with the following coccinelle script: @rem@ @@ -typedef u64 cycle_t; @fix@ typedef cycle_t; @@ -cycle_t +u64 Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: John Stultz

timecounter: provide a macro to initialize the cyclecounter mask field.

2015-01-02T21:47:35+00:00

There is no need for users of the timecounter/cyclecounter code to include clocksource.h just for a single macro. Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

timecounter: keep track of accumulated fractional nanoseconds

2014-12-30T23:29:27+00:00

The current timecounter implementation will drop a variable amount of resolution, depending on the magnitude of the time delta. In other words, reading the clock too often or too close to a time stamp conversion will introduce errors into the time values. This patch fixes the issue by introducing a fractional nanosecond field that accumulates the low order bits. Reported-by: Janusz Użycki Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

timecounter: provide a helper function to shift the time.

2014-12-30T23:29:25+00:00

Some PTP Hardware Clock drivers use a struct timecounter to represent their clock. To adjust the time by a given offset, these drivers all perform a two step read/write of their timecounter. However, it is better and simpler just to adjust the offset in one step. This patch introduces a little routine to help drivers implement the adjtime method. Suggested-by: Janusz Użycki Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

time: move the timecounter/cyclecounter code into its own file.

2014-12-30T23:29:25+00:00

The timecounter code has almost nothing to do with the clocksource code. Let it live in its own file. This will help isolate the timecounter users from the clocksource users in the source tree. Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher Signed-off-by: David S. Miller