On Mon, 22 Feb 2016, Christopher S. Hall wrote: > The timekeeping code does not currently provide a way to translate > externally provided clocksource cycles to system time. The cycle count > is always provided by the result clocksource read() method internal to > the timekeeping code. The added function timekeeping_cycles_to_ns() > calculated a nanosecond value from a cycle count that can be added to > tk_read_base.base value yielding the current system time. This allows > clocksource cycle values external to the timekeeping code to provide a > cycle count that can be transformed to system time.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
