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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2013-12-19 15:08:03 +0100
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2013-12-19 15:08:32 +0100
commite23c34bb41da65f354fb7eee04300c56ee48f60c (patch)
tree549fbe449d55273b81ef104a9755109bf4ae7817 /include/linux/timex.h
parentb481c2cb3534c85dca625973b33eba15f9af3e4c (diff)
parent319e2e3f63c348a9b66db4667efa73178e18b17d (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Sync with Linus' tree to be able to apply fixes on top of newer things in tree (efi-stub). Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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diff --git a/include/linux/timex.h b/include/linux/timex.h
index b3726e61368e..9d3f1a5b6178 100644
--- a/include/linux/timex.h
+++ b/include/linux/timex.h
@@ -64,6 +64,20 @@
#include <asm/timex.h>
+#ifndef random_get_entropy
+/*
+ * The random_get_entropy() function is used by the /dev/random driver
+ * in order to extract entropy via the relative unpredictability of
+ * when an interrupt takes places versus a high speed, fine-grained
+ * timing source or cycle counter. Since it will be occurred on every
+ * single interrupt, it must have a very low cost/overhead.
+ *
+ * By default we use get_cycles() for this purpose, but individual
+ * architectures may override this in their asm/timex.h header file.
+ */
+#define random_get_entropy() get_cycles()
+#endif
+
/*
* SHIFT_PLL is used as a dampening factor to define how much we
* adjust the frequency correction for a given offset in PLL mode.
@@ -141,6 +155,7 @@ extern int do_adjtimex(struct timex *);
extern void hardpps(const struct timespec *, const struct timespec *);
int read_current_timer(unsigned long *timer_val);
+void ntp_notify_cmos_timer(void);
/* The clock frequency of the i8253/i8254 PIT */
#define PIT_TICK_RATE 1193182ul