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r: 146694
b: refs/heads/master
c: 7d27558
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: a25cbd045a2ffc42787d4dbcbb9c7118f5f42732
+refs/heads/master: 7d27558c4138ac6b3684dea35c2f4379b940a7dd

trunk/include/linux/time.h

@@ -113,6 +113,21 @@ struct timespec current_kernel_time(void);
 #define CURRENT_TIME		(current_kernel_time())
 #define CURRENT_TIME_SEC	((struct timespec) { get_seconds(), 0 })
 
+/* Some architectures do not supply their own clocksource.
+ * This is mainly the case in architectures that get their
+ * inter-tick times by reading the counter on their interval
+ * timer. Since these timers wrap every tick, they're not really
+ * useful as clocksources. Wrapping them to act like one is possible
+ * but not very efficient. So we provide a callout these arches
+ * can implement for use with the jiffies clocksource to provide
+ * finer then tick granular time.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET
+extern u32 arch_gettimeoffset(void);
+#else
+static inline u32 arch_gettimeoffset(void) { return 0; }
+#endif
+
 extern void do_gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv);
 extern int do_settimeofday(struct timespec *tv);
 extern int do_sys_settimeofday(struct timespec *tv, struct timezone *tz);

trunk/kernel/time/timekeeping.c

@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ static void clocksource_forward_now(void)
 	clock->cycle_last = cycle_now;
 
 	nsec = cyc2ns(clock, cycle_delta);
+
+	/* If arch requires, add in gettimeoffset() */
+	nsec += arch_gettimeoffset();
+
 	timespec_add_ns(&xtime, nsec);
 
 	nsec = ((s64)cycle_delta * clock->mult_orig) >> clock->shift;
@@ -111,6 +115,9 @@ void getnstimeofday(struct timespec *ts)
 		/* convert to nanoseconds: */
 		nsecs = cyc2ns(clock, cycle_delta);
 
+		/* If arch requires, add in gettimeoffset() */
+		nsecs += arch_gettimeoffset();
+
 	} while (read_seqretry(&xtime_lock, seq));
 
 	timespec_add_ns(ts, nsecs);