Hi Timur. On 22 May 2015 at 00:33, Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/21/2015 11:12 AM, Fu Wei wrote: >>> >>> > >>> >Having said that, my personal preference would be for the counter >>> >and rate to be exported through the clock subsystem (ie with >>> >clk_get_rate). But that would still not provide the current counter >>> >value, so maybe that isn't even possible. >> >> I will try to make a patch for this, If the arm maintainers don't like >> exporting "arch_timer_get_rate();" >> >> But your thought is good, the clk_get_rate is the best way to do for now > > > The rate isn't the problem. It's the current timestamp counter. The only > way to get that is with either arch_counter_get_cntvct() or > arch_timer_read_counter(). I'm not sure which of the two functions is > better. However, arch_timer_read_counter() is really just a function > pointer that points to arch_counter_get_cntvct(). > > Also, clk_get_rate() only works if you have a real clk object. I've said > this before many times, but on my ACPI platform, there are no clk objects. > Clocks are handled by UEFI. Thanks for your info, I think : right now , do what we can do, export the interface of arch_timer, If the arm maintainers don't like this way, we can find another way later or find a option as plan B. > > -- > Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. > The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the > Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. -- Best regards, Fu Wei Software Engineer Red Hat Software (Beijing) Co.,Ltd.Shanghai Branch Ph: +86 21 61221326(direct) Ph: +86 186 2020 4684 (mobile) Room 1512, Regus One Corporate Avenue,Level 15, One Corporate Avenue,222 Hubin Road,Huangpu District, Shanghai,China 200021 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
