x86/tsc: Convert ART in nanoseconds to TSC
Device drivers use get_device_system_crosststamp() to produce precise system/device cross-timestamps. The PHC clock and ALSA interfaces, for example, make the cross-timestamps available to user applications. On Intel platforms, get_device_system_crosststamp() requires a TSC value derived from ART (Always Running Timer) to compute the monotonic raw and realtime system timestamps. Starting with Intel Goldmont platforms, the PCIe root complex supports the PTM time sync protocol. PTM requires all timestamps to be in units of nanoseconds. The Intel root complex hardware propagates system time derived from ART in units of nanoseconds performing the conversion as follows: ART_NS = ART * 1e9 / <crystal frequency> When user software requests a cross-timestamp, the system timestamps (generally read from device registers) must be converted to TSC by the driver software as follows: TSC = ART_NS * TSC_KHZ / 1e6 This is valid when CPU feature flag X86_FEATURE_TSC_KNOWN_FREQ is set indicating that tsc_khz is derived from CPUID[15H]. Drivers should check whether this flag is set before conversion to TSC is attempted. Suggested-by: Christopher S. Hall <christopher.s.hall@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rajvi Jingar <rajvi.jingar@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520530116-4925-1-git-send-email-rajvi.jingar@intel.com
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