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authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>2009-09-11 04:28:31 -0400
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2009-09-11 04:29:42 -0400
commit05e7ff7da78bad3edc1290ed86b4a37da72ced62 (patch)
treef7348a9f4f561a53465abea731c2ef59900fd62f /arch/s390/include/asm
parentca99dab01dd63dcc413395bd3e75b0be152dfefc (diff)
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/s390/include/asm')
-rw-r--r--arch/s390/include/asm/timex.h14
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/timex.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/timex.h
index cc21e3e20fd7..24aa1cda20ad 100644
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -90,4 +90,18 @@ unsigned long long monotonic_clock(void);
90 90
91extern u64 sched_clock_base_cc; 91extern u64 sched_clock_base_cc;
92 92
93/**
94 * get_clock_monotonic - returns current time in clock rate units
95 *
96 * The caller must ensure that preemption is disabled.
97 * The clock and sched_clock_base get changed via stop_machine.
98 * Therefore preemption must be disabled when calling this
99 * function, otherwise the returned value is not guaranteed to
100 * be monotonic.
101 */
102static inline unsigned long long get_clock_monotonic(void)
103{
104 return get_clock_xt() - sched_clock_base_cc;
105}
106
93#endif 107#endif