timecounter: provide a helper function to shift the time.

Some PTP Hardware Clock drivers use a struct timecounter to represent
their clock. To adjust the time by a given offset, these drivers all
perform a two step read/write of their timecounter. However, it is
better and simpler just to adjust the offset in one step. This patch
introduces a little routine to help drivers implement the adjtime
method.

Suggested-by: Janusz Użycki <j.uzycki@elproma.com.pl>
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/include/linux/timecounter.h b/include/linux/timecounter.h
index 146f07a6651bea5a69a51dbe60c3712fb236c3a6..af3dfa4e90f02433781ad604e2e429cd4092e38f 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/timecounter.h
+++ b/include/linux/timecounter.h
@@ -78,6 +78,15 @@ static inline u64 cyclecounter_cyc2ns(const struct cyclecounter *cc,
        return ret;
 }
 
+/**
+ * timecounter_adjtime - Shifts the time of the clock.
+ * @delta:     Desired change in nanoseconds.
+ */
+static inline void timecounter_adjtime(struct timecounter *tc, s64 delta)
+{
+       tc->nsec += delta;
+}
+
 /**
  * timecounter_init - initialize a time counter
  * @tc:                        Pointer to time counter which is to be initialized/reset