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| author | Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> | 2009-08-14 15:47:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2009-08-15 10:55:46 +0200 |
| commit | d4f587c67fc39e0030ddd718675e252e208da4d7 (patch) | |
| tree | 2222681c57966cc6b8404afdff3ab1a09ac7ea69 /include/linux/time.h | |
| parent | 75c5158f70c065b9704b924503d96e8297838f79 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-d4f587c67fc39e0030ddd718675e252e208da4d7.tar.gz lwn-d4f587c67fc39e0030ddd718675e252e208da4d7.zip | |
timekeeping: Increase granularity of read_persistent_clock()
The persistent clock of some architectures (e.g. s390) have a
better granularity than seconds. To reduce the delta between the
host clock and the guest clock in a virtualized system change the
read_persistent_clock function to return a struct timespec.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090814134811.013873340@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/time.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/time.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/time.h b/include/linux/time.h index e7c844558884..53a3216f0d1b 100644 --- a/include/linux/time.h +++ b/include/linux/time.h @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ extern struct timespec xtime; extern struct timespec wall_to_monotonic; extern seqlock_t xtime_lock; -extern unsigned long read_persistent_clock(void); +extern void read_persistent_clock(struct timespec *ts); extern int update_persistent_clock(struct timespec now); extern int no_sync_cmos_clock __read_mostly; void timekeeping_init(void); |