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+/*
+ * linux/include/linux/timecounter.h
+ *
+ * based on code that migrated away from
+ * linux/include/linux/clocksource.h
+ *
+ * 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.
+ */
+#ifndef _LINUX_TIMECOUNTER_H
+#define _LINUX_TIMECOUNTER_H
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+/* simplify initialization of mask field */
+#define CYCLECOUNTER_MASK(bits) (cycle_t)((bits) < 64 ? ((1ULL<<(bits))-1) : -1)
+
+/**
+ * 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 CYCLECOUNTER_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
+ * @mask: bit mask for maintaining the 'frac' field
+ * @frac: accumulated fractional nanoseconds
+ */
+struct timecounter {
+ const struct cyclecounter *cc;
+ cycle_t cycle_last;
+ u64 nsec;
+ u64 mask;
+ u64 frac;
+};
+
+/**
+ * cyclecounter_cyc2ns - converts cycle counter cycles to nanoseconds
+ * @cc: Pointer to cycle counter.
+ * @cycles: Cycles
+ * @mask: bit mask for maintaining the 'frac' field
+ * @frac: pointer to storage for the fractional nanoseconds.
+ */
+static inline u64 cyclecounter_cyc2ns(const struct cyclecounter *cc,
+ cycle_t cycles, u64 mask, u64 *frac)
+{
+ u64 ns = (u64) cycles;
+
+ ns = (ns * cc->mult) + *frac;
+ *frac = ns & mask;
+ return ns >> cc->shift;
+}
+
+/**
+ * timecounter_adjtime - Shifts the time of the clock.
+ * @delta: Desired change in nanoseconds.
+ */
+static inline void timecounter_adjtime(struct timecounter *tc, s64 delta)
+{
+ tc->nsec += delta;
+}
+
+/**
+ * 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_tstamp: 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);
+
+#endif