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1 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */
2 /*
3 * linux/include/linux/timecounter.h
4 *
5 * based on code that migrated away from
6 * linux/include/linux/clocksource.h
7 */
8 #ifndef _LINUX_TIMECOUNTER_H
9 #define _LINUX_TIMECOUNTER_H
10
11 #include <linux/types.h>
12
13 /* simplify initialization of mask field */
14 #define CYCLECOUNTER_MASK(bits) (u64)((bits) < 64 ? ((1ULL<<(bits))-1) : -1)
15
16 /**
17 * struct cyclecounter - hardware abstraction for a free running counter
18 * Provides completely state-free accessors to the underlying hardware.
19 * Depending on which hardware it reads, the cycle counter may wrap
20 * around quickly. Locking rules (if necessary) have to be defined
21 * by the implementor and user of specific instances of this API.
22 *
23 * @read: returns the current cycle value
24 * @mask: bitmask for two's complement
25 * subtraction of non-64-bit counters,
26 * see CYCLECOUNTER_MASK() helper macro
27 * @mult: cycle to nanosecond multiplier
28 * @shift: cycle to nanosecond divisor (power of two)
29 */
30 struct cyclecounter {
31 u64 (*read)(const struct cyclecounter *cc);
32 u64 mask;
33 u32 mult;
34 u32 shift;
35 };
36
37 /**
38 * struct timecounter - layer above a &struct cyclecounter which counts nanoseconds
39 * Contains the state needed by timecounter_read() to detect
40 * cycle counter wrap around. Initialize with
41 * timecounter_init(). Also used to convert cycle counts into the
42 * corresponding nanosecond counts with timecounter_cyc2time(). Users
43 * of this code are responsible for initializing the underlying
44 * cycle counter hardware, locking issues and reading the time
45 * more often than the cycle counter wraps around. The nanosecond
46 * counter will only wrap around after ~585 years.
47 *
48 * @cc: the cycle counter used by this instance
49 * @cycle_last: most recent cycle counter value seen by
50 * timecounter_read()
51 * @nsec: continuously increasing count
52 * @mask: bit mask for maintaining the 'frac' field
53 * @frac: accumulated fractional nanoseconds
54 */
55 struct timecounter {
56 const struct cyclecounter *cc;
57 u64 cycle_last;
58 u64 nsec;
59 u64 mask;
60 u64 frac;
61 };
62
63 /**
64 * cyclecounter_cyc2ns - converts cycle counter cycles to nanoseconds
65 * @cc: Pointer to cycle counter.
66 * @cycles: Cycles
67 * @mask: bit mask for maintaining the 'frac' field
68 * @frac: pointer to storage for the fractional nanoseconds.
69 *
70 * Returns: cycle counter cycles converted to nanoseconds
71 */
72 static inline u64 cyclecounter_cyc2ns(const struct cyclecounter *cc,
73 u64 cycles, u64 mask, u64 *frac)
74 {
75 u64 ns = (u64) cycles;
76
77 ns = (ns * cc->mult) + *frac;
78 *frac = ns & mask;
79 return ns >> cc->shift;
80 }
81
82 /**
83 * timecounter_adjtime - Shifts the time of the clock.
84 * @tc: The &struct timecounter to adjust
85 * @delta: Desired change in nanoseconds.
86 */
87 static inline void timecounter_adjtime(struct timecounter *tc, s64 delta)
88 {
89 tc->nsec += delta;
90 }
91
92 /**
93 * timecounter_init - initialize a time counter
94 * @tc: Pointer to time counter which is to be initialized/reset
95 * @cc: A cycle counter, ready to be used.
96 * @start_tstamp: Arbitrary initial time stamp.
97 *
98 * After this call the current cycle register (roughly) corresponds to
99 * the initial time stamp. Every call to timecounter_read() increments
100 * the time stamp counter by the number of elapsed nanoseconds.
101 */
102 extern void timecounter_init(struct timecounter *tc,
103 const struct cyclecounter *cc,
104 u64 start_tstamp);
105
106 /**
107 * timecounter_read - return nanoseconds elapsed since timecounter_init()
108 * plus the initial time stamp
109 * @tc: Pointer to time counter.
110 *
111 * In other words, keeps track of time since the same epoch as
112 * the function which generated the initial time stamp.
113 *
114 * Returns: nanoseconds since the initial time stamp
115 */
116 extern u64 timecounter_read(struct timecounter *tc);
117
118 /**
119 * timecounter_cyc2time - convert a cycle counter to same
120 * time base as values returned by
121 * timecounter_read()
122 * @tc: Pointer to time counter.
123 * @cycle_tstamp: a value returned by tc->cc->read()
124 *
125 * Cycle counts that are converted correctly as long as they
126 * fall into the interval [-1/2 max cycle count, +1/2 max cycle count],
127 * with "max cycle count" == cs->mask+1.
128 *
129 * This allows conversion of cycle counter values which were generated
130 * in the past.
131 *
132 * Returns: cycle counter converted to nanoseconds since the initial time stamp
133 */
134 extern u64 timecounter_cyc2time(const struct timecounter *tc,
135 u64 cycle_tstamp);
136
137 #endif