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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2006-01-09 20:52:30 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-10 08:01:37 -0800
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[PATCH] hrtimer: introduce nsec_t type and conversion functions
- introduce the nsec_t type - basic nsec conversion routines: timespec_to_ns(), timeval_to_ns(), ns_to_timespec(), ns_to_timeval(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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1 files changed, 47 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/time.h b/include/linux/time.h
index 64e797464589..f639fde29253 100644
--- a/include/linux/time.h
+++ b/include/linux/time.h
@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ extern void set_normalized_timespec(struct timespec *ts, time_t sec, long nsec);
#define timespec_valid(ts) \
(((ts)->tv_sec >= 0) && (((unsigned) (ts)->tv_nsec) < NSEC_PER_SEC))
+/*
+ * 64-bit nanosec type. Large enough to span 292+ years in nanosecond
+ * resolution. Ought to be enough for a while.
+ */
+typedef s64 nsec_t;
+
extern struct timespec xtime;
extern struct timespec wall_to_monotonic;
extern seqlock_t xtime_lock;
@@ -79,6 +85,47 @@ extern void getnstimestamp(struct timespec *ts);
extern struct timespec timespec_trunc(struct timespec t, unsigned gran);
+/**
+ * timespec_to_ns - Convert timespec to nanoseconds
+ * @ts: pointer to the timespec variable to be converted
+ *
+ * Returns the scalar nanosecond representation of the timespec
+ * parameter.
+ */
+static inline nsec_t timespec_to_ns(const struct timespec *ts)
+{
+ return ((nsec_t) ts->tv_sec * NSEC_PER_SEC) + ts->tv_nsec;
+}
+
+/**
+ * timeval_to_ns - Convert timeval to nanoseconds
+ * @ts: pointer to the timeval variable to be converted
+ *
+ * Returns the scalar nanosecond representation of the timeval
+ * parameter.
+ */
+static inline nsec_t timeval_to_ns(const struct timeval *tv)
+{
+ return ((nsec_t) tv->tv_sec * NSEC_PER_SEC) +
+ tv->tv_usec * NSEC_PER_USEC;
+}
+
+/**
+ * ns_to_timespec - Convert nanoseconds to timespec
+ * @nsec: the nanoseconds value to be converted
+ *
+ * Returns the timespec representation of the nsec parameter.
+ */
+extern struct timespec ns_to_timespec(const nsec_t nsec);
+
+/**
+ * ns_to_timeval - Convert nanoseconds to timeval
+ * @nsec: the nanoseconds value to be converted
+ *
+ * Returns the timeval representation of the nsec parameter.
+ */
+extern struct timeval ns_to_timeval(const nsec_t nsec);
+
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#define NFDBITS __NFDBITS