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timers: Add CLOCK_BOOTTIME hrtimer base

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CLOCK_MONOTONIC stops while the system is in suspend. This is because
to applications system suspend is invisible. However, there is a
growing set of applications that are wanting to be suspend-aware,
but do not want to deal with the complications of CLOCK_REALTIME
(which might jump around if settimeofday is called).

For these applications, I propose a new clockid: CLOCK_BOOTTIME.
CLOCK_BOOTTIME is idential to CLOCK_MONOTONIC, except it also
includes any time spent in suspend.

This patch add hrtimer base for CLOCK_BOOTTIME, using
get_monotonic_boottime/ktime_get_boottime, to allow
in kernel users to set timers against.

CC: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>
CC: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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John Stultz 2011-02-15 10:45:16 -08:00
parent 314ac37150
commit 70a08cca12
3 changed files with 14 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -293,6 +293,7 @@ struct itimerval {
#define CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW 4
#define CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE 5
#define CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE 6
#define CLOCK_BOOTTIME 7
/*
* The IDs of various hardware clocks: