timecounter_init initializes the cyclecounter and sets the start time.
Sometimes drivers using timecounter just want to update start time.
This patch creates new function timecounter_reset that just resets the
timecounter start time and associated state.
Suggested-by: Richard Cochran <richardcoch...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sagar Arun Kamble <sagar.a.kam...@intel.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcoch...@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stu...@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sb...@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---
include/linux/timecounter.h | 17 +++++++++++++++--
kernel/time/timecounter.c | 9 +++++++++
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/timecounter.h b/include/linux/timecounter.h
index 59d3fd7..e0fd741 100644
--- a/include/linux/timecounter.h
+++ b/include/linux/timecounter.h
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ static inline void timecounter_adjtime(struct timecounter
*tc, s64 delta)
/**
* timecounter_init - initialize a time counter
- * @tc: Pointer to time counter which is to be
initialized/reset
+ * @tc: Pointer to time counter which is to be
initialized
* @start_tstamp: Arbitrary initial time stamp.
*
* After this call the current cycle register (roughly) corresponds to
@@ -131,8 +131,21 @@ extern void timecounter_initialize(struct timecounter *tc,
u64 start_tstamp);
/**
+ * timecounter_reset - reset a time counter
+ * @tc: Pointer to time counter which is to be reset
+ * @start_tstamp: Arbitrary initial time stamp.
+ *
+ * After this call the current cycle register (roughly) corresponds to
+ * the supplied time stamp. Every call to timecounter_read() increments
+ * the time stamp counter by the number of elapsed nanoseconds.
+ */
+extern void timecounter_reset(struct timecounter *tc,
+ u64 start_tstamp);
+
+/**
* timecounter_read - return nanoseconds elapsed since timecounter_init() or
- * timecounter_initialize() plus the initial time stamp
+ * timecounter_initialize() or timecounter_reset() plus
+ * the initial time stamp
* @tc: Pointer to time counter.
*
* In other words, keeps track of time since the same epoch as
diff --git a/kernel/time/timecounter.c b/kernel/time/timecounter.c
index 6d915752..3f62fe0 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timecounter.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timecounter.c
@@ -47,6 +47,15 @@ void timecounter_initialize(struct timecounter *tc,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(timecounter_initialize);
+void timecounter_reset(struct timecounter *tc,
+ u64 start_tstamp)
+{
+ tc->cycle_last = tc->cc.read(&tc->cc);
+ tc->nsec = start_tstamp;
+ tc->frac = 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(timecounter_reset);
+
/**
* timecounter_read_delta - get nanoseconds since last call of this function
* @tc: Pointer to time counter
--
1.9.1
