2 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/time.h b/include/linux/time.h
index bfbe92d0767c..797ccd813bb0 100644
--- a/include/linux/time.h
+++ b/include/linux/time.h
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ struct itimerval;
 extern int do_setitimer(int which, struct itimerval *value, struct itimerval *ovalue);
 extern int do_getitimer(int which, struct itimerval *value);
 extern void getnstimeofday (struct timespec *tv);
+extern void getnstimestamp(struct timespec *ts);
 
 extern struct timespec timespec_trunc(struct timespec t, unsigned gran);
 
diff --git a/kernel/time.c b/kernel/time.c
index 245d595a13cb..b94bfa8c03e0 100644
--- a/kernel/time.c
+++ b/kernel/time.c
@@ -561,6 +561,28 @@ void getnstimeofday(struct timespec *tv)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(getnstimeofday);
 #endif
 
+void getnstimestamp(struct timespec *ts)
+{
+        unsigned int seq;
+        struct timespec wall2mono;
+
+        /* synchronize with settimeofday() changes */
+        do {
+                seq = read_seqbegin(&xtime_lock);
+                getnstimeofday(ts);
+                wall2mono = wall_to_monotonic;
+        } while(unlikely(read_seqretry(&xtime_lock, seq)));
+
+        /* adjust to monotonicaly-increasing values */
+        ts->tv_sec += wall2mono.tv_sec;
+        ts->tv_nsec += wall2mono.tv_nsec;
+        while (unlikely(ts->tv_nsec >= NSEC_PER_SEC)) {
+                ts->tv_nsec -= NSEC_PER_SEC;
+                ts->tv_sec++;
+        }
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(getnstimestamp);
+
 #if (BITS_PER_LONG < 64)
 u64 get_jiffies_64(void)
 {