Re: [PATCH v8 1/8] time: Add cycles to nanoseconds translation

2016-02-24 Thread Thomas Gleixner
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 f

[PATCH v8 1/8] time: Add cycles to nanoseconds translation

2016-02-22 Thread Christopher S. Hall
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 nanosecon