On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Lal <learner.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am having trouble with do_gettimeofday() function. I have following
source code:
int my_module_init(void)
{
struct timeval tv = {0};
do_gettimeofday(&tv);
printk("tv.tv_sec = %lu\n", tv.tv_sec);
return 0;
}
module_init(my_module_init);
This code is built-in kernel, and therefore my_module_init is called
during device_initcall.
However the tv_sec value seems to be wrong (I was expecting this value
to be absolute number of seconds since 1970), but it prints 11 or 12
(which seems to be number of seconds since last boot).
I checked do_gettimeofday function source which gets the value from
xtime variable. I could not find who is responsible for initializing
xtime.
I tried to change module_init by late_initcall_sync. Still it's same.
Any help is appreciated.
Regards
Lal
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If you want time since the epoch in seconds then you can call the architecture specific method get_wallclock(), but make sure u hold the appropriate lock during this call.
For eg. this is how its done for x86 arch : -
void read_persistent_clock(struct timespec *ts)
{
unsigned long retval, flags;
spin_lock_irqsave(&rtc_lock, flags);
retval = x86_platform.get_wallclock();
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtc_lock, flags);
ts->tv_sec = retval;
ts->tv_nsec = 0;
}
NOTE : - this read_persistent_clock() function is not exported so u cannot make use of this symbol in your code. But x86_platform is exported variable, so u can make use of that.
xtime is updated by the function xtime_update() ----> do_timer() -----> update_wall_time() (This function sets the xtime variables time).
This code path is trigger on every timer interrupt.
Also, this time is measured from system boot as you correctly said.
Regards,
Rohan Puri.
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