[S390] introduce get_clock_monotonic

Introduce get_clock_monotonic() function which can be used to get a
(fast) timestamp. Resolution is the same as for get_clock(). The
only difference is that the timestamps are monotonic and don't jump
backward or forward.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/timex.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/timex.h
index cc21e3e20fd778e338f6581248f488b452fd2c18..24aa1cda20ad6178f6b21b5ba57a382657916555 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -90,4 +90,18 @@ unsigned long long monotonic_clock(void);
 
 extern u64 sched_clock_base_cc;
 
+/**
+ * get_clock_monotonic - returns current time in clock rate units
+ *
+ * The caller must ensure that preemption is disabled.
+ * The clock and sched_clock_base get changed via stop_machine.
+ * Therefore preemption must be disabled when calling this
+ * function, otherwise the returned value is not guaranteed to
+ * be monotonic.
+ */
+static inline unsigned long long get_clock_monotonic(void)
+{
+       return get_clock_xt() - sched_clock_base_cc;
+}
+
 #endif

diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/time.c b/arch/s390/kernel/time.c
index d4c8e9c47c81c61d855a0266f3eb0590b0c11c40..54e327e9af041bd98df49e0d9743d10a79b1c771 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/time.c
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@
 #define TICK_SIZE tick
 
 u64 sched_clock_base_cc = -1;  /* Force to data section. */
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sched_clock_base_cc);
 
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct clock_event_device, comparators);
 
@@ -68,7 +69,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct clock_event_device, comparators);
  */
 unsigned long long notrace sched_clock(void)
 {
-       return ((get_clock_xt() - sched_clock_base_cc) * 125) >> 9;
+       return (get_clock_monotonic() * 125) >> 9;
 }
 
 /*