Patch "time: Add cycles to nanoseconds translation" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    time: Add cycles to nanoseconds translation

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     time-add-cycles-to-nanoseconds-translation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 6bd58f09e1d8cc6c50a824c00bf0d617919986a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Christopher S. Hall" <christopher.s.hall@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 03:15:19 -0800
Subject: time: Add cycles to nanoseconds translation

From: Christopher S. Hall <christopher.s.hall@intel.com>

commit 6bd58f09e1d8cc6c50a824c00bf0d617919986a1 upstream.

The timekeeping code does not currently provide a way to translate
externally provided clocksource cycles to system time. The cycle count
is always provided by the result clocksource read() method internal to
the timekeeping code. The added function timekeeping_cycles_to_ns()
calculated a nanosecond value from a cycle count that can be added to
tk_read_base.base value yielding the current system time. This allows
clocksource cycle values external to the timekeeping code to provide a
cycle count that can be transformed to system time.

Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: kevin.b.stanton@intel.com
Cc: kevin.j.clarke@intel.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Christopher S. Hall <christopher.s.hall@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/time/timekeeping.c |   25 +++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -298,17 +298,34 @@ u32 (*arch_gettimeoffset)(void) = defaul
 static inline u32 arch_gettimeoffset(void) { return 0; }
 #endif
 
+static inline s64 timekeeping_delta_to_ns(struct tk_read_base *tkr,
+					  cycle_t delta)
+{
+	s64 nsec;
+
+	nsec = delta * tkr->mult + tkr->xtime_nsec;
+	nsec >>= tkr->shift;
+
+	/* If arch requires, add in get_arch_timeoffset() */
+	return nsec + arch_gettimeoffset();
+}
+
 static inline s64 timekeeping_get_ns(struct tk_read_base *tkr)
 {
 	cycle_t delta;
-	s64 nsec;
 
 	delta = timekeeping_get_delta(tkr);
+	return timekeeping_delta_to_ns(tkr, delta);
+}
 
-	nsec = (delta * tkr->mult + tkr->xtime_nsec) >> tkr->shift;
+static inline s64 timekeeping_cycles_to_ns(struct tk_read_base *tkr,
+					    cycle_t cycles)
+{
+	cycle_t delta;
 
-	/* If arch requires, add in get_arch_timeoffset() */
-	return nsec + arch_gettimeoffset();
+	/* calculate the delta since the last update_wall_time */
+	delta = clocksource_delta(cycles, tkr->cycle_last, tkr->mask);
+	return timekeeping_delta_to_ns(tkr, delta);
 }
 
 /**


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from christopher.s.hall@intel.com are

queue-4.4/time-add-cycles-to-nanoseconds-translation.patch