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diff --git a/include/linux/clocksource.h b/include/linux/clocksource.h
index f88d32f8ff7c..573819ef4cc0 100644
--- a/include/linux/clocksource.h
+++ b/include/linux/clocksource.h
@@ -22,8 +22,109 @@ typedef u64 cycle_t;
struct clocksource;
/**
+ * struct cyclecounter - hardware abstraction for a free running counter
+ * Provides completely state-free accessors to the underlying hardware.
+ * Depending on which hardware it reads, the cycle counter may wrap
+ * around quickly. Locking rules (if necessary) have to be defined
+ * by the implementor and user of specific instances of this API.
+ *
+ * @read: returns the current cycle value
+ * @mask: bitmask for two's complement
+ * subtraction of non 64 bit counters,
+ * see CLOCKSOURCE_MASK() helper macro
+ * @mult: cycle to nanosecond multiplier
+ * @shift: cycle to nanosecond divisor (power of two)
+ */
+struct cyclecounter {
+ cycle_t (*read)(const struct cyclecounter *cc);
+ cycle_t mask;
+ u32 mult;
+ u32 shift;
+};
+
+/**
+ * struct timecounter - layer above a %struct cyclecounter which counts nanoseconds
+ * Contains the state needed by timecounter_read() to detect
+ * cycle counter wrap around. Initialize with
+ * timecounter_init(). Also used to convert cycle counts into the
+ * corresponding nanosecond counts with timecounter_cyc2time(). Users
+ * of this code are responsible for initializing the underlying
+ * cycle counter hardware, locking issues and reading the time
+ * more often than the cycle counter wraps around. The nanosecond
+ * counter will only wrap around after ~585 years.
+ *
+ * @cc: the cycle counter used by this instance
+ * @cycle_last: most recent cycle counter value seen by
+ * timecounter_read()
+ * @nsec: continuously increasing count
+ */
+struct timecounter {
+ const struct cyclecounter *cc;
+ cycle_t cycle_last;
+ u64 nsec;
+};
+
+/**
+ * cyclecounter_cyc2ns - converts cycle counter cycles to nanoseconds
+ * @tc: Pointer to cycle counter.
+ * @cycles: Cycles
+ *
+ * XXX - This could use some mult_lxl_ll() asm optimization. Same code
+ * as in cyc2ns, but with unsigned result.
+ */
+static inline u64 cyclecounter_cyc2ns(const struct cyclecounter *cc,
+ cycle_t cycles)
+{
+ u64 ret = (u64)cycles;
+ ret = (ret * cc->mult) >> cc->shift;
+ return ret;
+}
+
+/**
+ * timecounter_init - initialize a time counter
+ * @tc: Pointer to time counter which is to be initialized/reset
+ * @cc: A cycle counter, ready to be used.
+ * @start_tstamp: Arbitrary initial time stamp.
+ *
+ * After this call the current cycle register (roughly) corresponds to
+ * the initial time stamp. Every call to timecounter_read() increments
+ * the time stamp counter by the number of elapsed nanoseconds.
+ */
+extern void timecounter_init(struct timecounter *tc,
+ const struct cyclecounter *cc,
+ u64 start_tstamp);
+
+/**
+ * timecounter_read - return nanoseconds elapsed since timecounter_init()
+ * plus the initial time stamp
+ * @tc: Pointer to time counter.
+ *
+ * In other words, keeps track of time since the same epoch as
+ * the function which generated the initial time stamp.
+ */
+extern u64 timecounter_read(struct timecounter *tc);
+
+/**
+ * timecounter_cyc2time - convert a cycle counter to same
+ * time base as values returned by
+ * timecounter_read()
+ * @tc: Pointer to time counter.
+ * @cycle: a value returned by tc->cc->read()
+ *
+ * Cycle counts that are converted correctly as long as they
+ * fall into the interval [-1/2 max cycle count, +1/2 max cycle count],
+ * with "max cycle count" == cs->mask+1.
+ *
+ * This allows conversion of cycle counter values which were generated
+ * in the past.
+ */
+extern u64 timecounter_cyc2time(struct timecounter *tc,
+ cycle_t cycle_tstamp);
+
+/**
* struct clocksource - hardware abstraction for a free running counter
* Provides mostly state-free accessors to the underlying hardware.
+ * This is the structure used for system time.
*
* @name: ptr to clocksource name
* @list: list head for registration