Hello Tulio, On 08/22/2012 08:53 PM, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho wrote: > Glibc 2.16 was released with a new function for the Power architecture > that can read its Time Base Register. > It was included by commit d9dc34cd. Sorry for the very long delay. I've applied this patch. Thanks for sending it. Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > man3/__ppc_get_timebase.3 | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 man3/__ppc_get_timebase.3 > > diff --git a/man3/__ppc_get_timebase.3 b/man3/__ppc_get_timebase.3 > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..f8e5854 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/man3/__ppc_get_timebase.3 > @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ > +.\" Copyright (c) 2012, IBM Corporation. > +.\" > +.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this > +.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are > +.\" preserved on all copies. > +.\" > +.\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of > +.\" this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that > +.\" the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of > +.\" a permission notice identical to this one. > +.\" > +.\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this > +.\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume. > +.\" no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting. > +.\" from the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may. > +.\" not have taken the same level of care in the production of this. > +.\" manual, which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working. > +.\" professionally. > +.\" > +.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by > +.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. > + > +.TH __PPC_GET_TIMEBASE 3 2012-08-13 "GNU C Library" "Linux Programmer's\ > +Manual" > +.SH NAME > +__ppc_get_timebase \- Get the current value of the Time Base Register on > +Power architecture > +.SH SYNOPSIS > +.B #include <sys/platform/ppc.h> > +.sp > +.BI "uint64_t __ppc_get_timebase(void)" > +.SH DESCRIPTION > +.BR __ppc_get_timebase() > +reads the current value of the Time Base Register and returns its value. > +The Time Base Register is a 64-bit register presented in Power Architecture > +processors that stores a monotonically incremented value updated at a > +system-dependent frequency that may be different from the processor > +frequency. > +.SH RETURN VALUE > +Returns a 64-bit unsigned integer that represents the current value of the > +Time Base Register. > +.SH VERSIONS > +The GNU C Library support for __ppc_get_timebase has been provided since > +version 2.16. > +.SH CONFORMING TO > +This function is a nonstandard GNU extension. > +.SH SEE ALSO > +.BR time (2), > +.BR usleep (3) > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
