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diff --git a/include/linux/clocksource.h b/include/linux/clocksource.h
index f88d32f8ff7c..573819ef4cc0 100644
--- a/include/linux/clocksource.h
+++ b/include/linux/clocksource.h
@@ -22,8 +22,109 @@ typedef u64 cycle_t;
 struct clocksource;
 
 /**
+ * struct cyclecounter - hardware abstraction for a free running counter
+ *	Provides completely state-free accessors to the underlying hardware.
+ *	Depending on which hardware it reads, the cycle counter may wrap
+ *	around quickly. Locking rules (if necessary) have to be defined
+ *	by the implementor and user of specific instances of this API.
+ *
+ * @read:		returns the current cycle value
+ * @mask:		bitmask for two's complement
+ *			subtraction of non 64 bit counters,
+ *			see CLOCKSOURCE_MASK() helper macro
+ * @mult:		cycle to nanosecond multiplier
+ * @shift:		cycle to nanosecond divisor (power of two)
+ */
+struct cyclecounter {
+	cycle_t (*read)(const struct cyclecounter *cc);
+	cycle_t mask;
+	u32 mult;
+	u32 shift;
+};
+
+/**
+ * struct timecounter - layer above a %struct cyclecounter which counts nanoseconds
+ *	Contains the state needed by timecounter_read() to detect
+ *	cycle counter wrap around. Initialize with
+ *	timecounter_init(). Also used to convert cycle counts into the
+ *	corresponding nanosecond counts with timecounter_cyc2time(). Users
+ *	of this code are responsible for initializing the underlying
+ *	cycle counter hardware, locking issues and reading the time
+ *	more often than the cycle counter wraps around. The nanosecond
+ *	counter will only wrap around after ~585 years.
+ *
+ * @cc:			the cycle counter used by this instance
+ * @cycle_last:		most recent cycle counter value seen by
+ *			timecounter_read()
+ * @nsec:		continuously increasing count
+ */
+struct timecounter {
+	const struct cyclecounter *cc;
+	cycle_t cycle_last;
+	u64 nsec;
+};
+
+/**
+ * cyclecounter_cyc2ns - converts cycle counter cycles to nanoseconds
+ * @tc:		Pointer to cycle counter.
+ * @cycles:	Cycles
+ *
+ * XXX - This could use some mult_lxl_ll() asm optimization. Same code
+ * as in cyc2ns, but with unsigned result.
+ */
+static inline u64 cyclecounter_cyc2ns(const struct cyclecounter *cc,
+				      cycle_t cycles)
+{
+	u64 ret = (u64)cycles;
+	ret = (ret * cc->mult) >> cc->shift;
+	return ret;
+}
+
+/**
+ * timecounter_init - initialize a time counter
+ * @tc:			Pointer to time counter which is to be initialized/reset
+ * @cc:			A cycle counter, ready to be used.
+ * @start_tstamp:	Arbitrary initial time stamp.
+ *
+ * After this call the current cycle register (roughly) corresponds to
+ * the initial time stamp. Every call to timecounter_read() increments
+ * the time stamp counter by the number of elapsed nanoseconds.
+ */
+extern void timecounter_init(struct timecounter *tc,
+			     const struct cyclecounter *cc,
+			     u64 start_tstamp);
+
+/**
+ * timecounter_read - return nanoseconds elapsed since timecounter_init()
+ *                    plus the initial time stamp
+ * @tc:          Pointer to time counter.
+ *
+ * In other words, keeps track of time since the same epoch as
+ * the function which generated the initial time stamp.
+ */
+extern u64 timecounter_read(struct timecounter *tc);
+
+/**
+ * timecounter_cyc2time - convert a cycle counter to same
+ *                        time base as values returned by
+ *                        timecounter_read()
+ * @tc:		Pointer to time counter.
+ * @cycle:	a value returned by tc->cc->read()
+ *
+ * Cycle counts that are converted correctly as long as they
+ * fall into the interval [-1/2 max cycle count, +1/2 max cycle count],
+ * with "max cycle count" == cs->mask+1.
+ *
+ * This allows conversion of cycle counter values which were generated
+ * in the past.
+ */
+extern u64 timecounter_cyc2time(struct timecounter *tc,
+				cycle_t cycle_tstamp);
+
+/**
  * struct clocksource - hardware abstraction for a free running counter
  *	Provides mostly state-free accessors to the underlying hardware.
+ *	This is the structure used for system time.
  *
  * @name:		ptr to clocksource name
  * @list:		list head for registration