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| author | Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> | 2014-07-10 09:52:27 +0200 |
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| committer | John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> | 2014-07-23 15:07:13 -0700 |
| commit | 7806f60e1d205db46eca6ad24429b3f86eda2588 (patch) | |
| tree | cac0d38e36b81b91d58b11c6eef36631b8c058db /Documentation/timers/00-INDEX | |
| parent | 375f45b5b53a91dfa8f0c11328e0e044f82acbed (diff) | |
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clocksource: document some basic timekeeping concepts
This adds some documentation about clock sources, clock events,
the weak sched_clock() function and delay timers that answers
questions that repeatedly arise on the mailing lists.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@google.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/timers/00-INDEX b/Documentation/timers/00-INDEX index 6d042dc1cce0..ee212a27772f 100644 --- a/Documentation/timers/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/timers/00-INDEX @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ Makefile - Build and link hpet_example NO_HZ.txt - Summary of the different methods for the scheduler clock-interrupts management. +timekeeping.txt + - Clock sources, clock events, sched_clock() and delay timer notes timers-howto.txt - how to insert delays in the kernel the right (tm) way. timer_stats.txt |