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From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Date:   Thu, 16 Sep 2021 23:48:36 +0200
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 08/20] kernel: time: Add system time to system
 counter translation
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 6:48 PM <lakshmi.sowjanya.d@intel.com> wrote:

> From: Christopher Hall <christopher.s.hall@intel.com>
>
> The GPIOlib event generation interface supplies a time in terms of the
> realtime system clock. The driver must translate the system clock to
> something meaningful to the hardware.
>
> The Intel(R) PMC Timed I/O hardware uses ART to trigger events. For
> most Intel(R) platforms that use TSC for timekeeping this added
> function translates from system clock to TSC. The relation between TSC
> and ART is easily derived from CPUID[15H].
>
> Signed-off-by: Christopher Hall <christopher.s.hall@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tamal Saha <tamal.saha@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lakshmi Sowjanya D <lakshmi.sowjanya.d@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>

I don't quite understand what this patch does, but it looks very generic.
I think the exact usecase needs to be in the commit message.

In either case, this is a patch TGLX et al needs to look at, we can't
merge timekeeping code without their consent.

Yours,
Linus Walleij