time: export time information for KVM pvclock
authorMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:28:59 +0000 (23:28 -0200)
committerMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:29:12 +0000 (23:29 -0200)
As suggested by John, export time data similarly to how its
done by vsyscall support. This allows KVM to retrieve necessary
information to implement vsyscall support in KVM guests.

Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
include/linux/pvclock_gtod.h [new file with mode: 0644]
kernel/time/timekeeping.c

diff --git a/include/linux/pvclock_gtod.h b/include/linux/pvclock_gtod.h
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..0ca7582
--- /dev/null
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#ifndef _PVCLOCK_GTOD_H
+#define _PVCLOCK_GTOD_H
+
+#include <linux/notifier.h>
+
+extern int pvclock_gtod_register_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
+extern int pvclock_gtod_unregister_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
+
+#endif /* _PVCLOCK_GTOD_H */
index e424970..69f5342 100644 (file)
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include <linux/time.h>
 #include <linux/tick.h>
 #include <linux/stop_machine.h>
+#include <linux/pvclock_gtod.h>
 
 
 static struct timekeeper timekeeper;
@@ -180,6 +181,54 @@ static inline s64 timekeeping_get_ns_raw(struct timekeeper *tk)
        return nsec + arch_gettimeoffset();
 }
 
+static RAW_NOTIFIER_HEAD(pvclock_gtod_chain);
+
+static void update_pvclock_gtod(struct timekeeper *tk)
+{
+       raw_notifier_call_chain(&pvclock_gtod_chain, 0, tk);
+}
+
+/**
+ * pvclock_gtod_register_notifier - register a pvclock timedata update listener
+ *
+ * Must hold write on timekeeper.lock
+ */
+int pvclock_gtod_register_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
+{
+       struct timekeeper *tk = &timekeeper;
+       unsigned long flags;
+       int ret;
+
+       write_seqlock_irqsave(&tk->lock, flags);
+       ret = raw_notifier_chain_register(&pvclock_gtod_chain, nb);
+       /* update timekeeping data */
+       update_pvclock_gtod(tk);
+       write_sequnlock_irqrestore(&tk->lock, flags);
+
+       return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pvclock_gtod_register_notifier);
+
+/**
+ * pvclock_gtod_unregister_notifier - unregister a pvclock
+ * timedata update listener
+ *
+ * Must hold write on timekeeper.lock
+ */
+int pvclock_gtod_unregister_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
+{
+       struct timekeeper *tk = &timekeeper;
+       unsigned long flags;
+       int ret;
+
+       write_seqlock_irqsave(&tk->lock, flags);
+       ret = raw_notifier_chain_unregister(&pvclock_gtod_chain, nb);
+       write_sequnlock_irqrestore(&tk->lock, flags);
+
+       return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pvclock_gtod_unregister_notifier);
+
 /* must hold write on timekeeper.lock */
 static void timekeeping_update(struct timekeeper *tk, bool clearntp)
 {
@@ -188,6 +237,7 @@ static void timekeeping_update(struct timekeeper *tk, bool clearntp)
                ntp_clear();
        }
        update_vsyscall(tk);
+       update_pvclock_gtod(tk);
 }
 
 /**