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authorLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>2014-07-10 09:52:27 +0200
committerJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>2014-07-23 15:07:13 -0700
commit7806f60e1d205db46eca6ad24429b3f86eda2588 (patch)
treecac0d38e36b81b91d58b11c6eef36631b8c058db /Documentation/timers/00-INDEX
parent375f45b5b53a91dfa8f0c11328e0e044f82acbed (diff)
clocksource: document some basic timekeeping concepts
This adds some documentation about clock sources, clock events, the weak sched_clock() function and delay timers that answers questions that repeatedly arise on the mailing lists. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@google.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ Makefile
- Build and link hpet_example
NO_HZ.txt
- Summary of the different methods for the scheduler clock-interrupts management.
+timekeeping.txt
+ - Clock sources, clock events, sched_clock() and delay timer notes
timers-howto.txt
- how to insert delays in the kernel the right (tm) way.
timer_stats.txt