include/linux/timex.h
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/include/linux/timex.h
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
include/linux/timex.h- Extension
.h- Size
- 6567 bytes
- Lines
- 165
- Domain
- Core OS
- Bucket
- Core Kernel Interface
- Inferred role
- Core OS: implementation source
- Status
- source implementation candidate
Why This File Exists
Core operating-system implementation surface: boot, tasks, memory, VFS, syscall-facing interfaces, synchronization, credentials, and isolation.
- Core operating-system implementation surface: boot, tasks, memory, VFS, syscall-facing interfaces, synchronization, credentials, and isolation.
- Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.
Dependency Surface
uapi/linux/timex.hlinux/compiler.hlinux/types.hlinux/param.hasm/timex.h
Detected Declarations
- No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.
Annotated Snippet
#ifndef _LINUX_TIMEX_H
#define _LINUX_TIMEX_H
#include <uapi/linux/timex.h>
#define ADJ_ADJTIME 0x8000 /* switch between adjtime/adjtimex modes */
#define ADJ_OFFSET_SINGLESHOT 0x0001 /* old-fashioned adjtime */
#define ADJ_OFFSET_READONLY 0x2000 /* read-only adjtime */
#include <linux/compiler.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/param.h>
unsigned long random_get_entropy_fallback(void);
#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.
* If a given arch does not have get_cycles(), then we fallback to
* using random_get_entropy_fallback().
*/
#ifdef get_cycles
#define random_get_entropy() ((unsigned long)get_cycles())
#else
#define random_get_entropy() random_get_entropy_fallback()
#endif
#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.
* It also used in dampening the offset correction, to define how
* much of the current value in time_offset we correct for each
* second. Changing this value changes the stiffness of the ntp
* adjustment code. A lower value makes it more flexible, reducing
* NTP convergence time. A higher value makes it stiffer, increasing
* convergence time, but making the clock more stable.
*
* In David Mills' nanokernel reference implementation SHIFT_PLL is 4.
* However this seems to increase convergence time much too long.
*
* https://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/hackers/2008-January/003487.html
*
* In the above mailing list discussion, it seems the value of 4
* was appropriate for other Unix systems with HZ=100, and that
* SHIFT_PLL should be decreased as HZ increases. However, Linux's
* clock steering implementation is HZ independent.
*
* Through experimentation, a SHIFT_PLL value of 2 was found to allow
* for fast convergence (very similar to the NTPv3 code used prior to
* v2.6.19), with good clock stability.
*
*
* SHIFT_FLL is used as a dampening factor to define how much we
* adjust the frequency correction for a given offset in FLL mode.
* In David Mills' nanokernel reference implementation SHIFT_FLL is 2.
*
* MAXTC establishes the maximum time constant of the PLL.
*/
#define SHIFT_PLL 2 /* PLL frequency factor (shift) */
#define SHIFT_FLL 2 /* FLL frequency factor (shift) */
#define MAXTC 10 /* maximum time constant (shift) */
/*
* SHIFT_USEC defines the scaling (shift) of the time_freq and
* time_tolerance variables, which represent the current frequency
* offset and maximum frequency tolerance.
*/
#define SHIFT_USEC 16 /* frequency offset scale (shift) */
#define PPM_SCALE ((s64)NSEC_PER_USEC << (NTP_SCALE_SHIFT - SHIFT_USEC))
#define PPM_SCALE_INV_SHIFT 19
#define PPM_SCALE_INV ((1LL << (PPM_SCALE_INV_SHIFT + NTP_SCALE_SHIFT)) / \
PPM_SCALE + 1)
#define MAXPHASE 500000000L /* max phase error (ns) */
#define MAXFREQ 500000 /* max frequency error (ns/s) */
#define MAXFREQ_SCALED ((s64)MAXFREQ << NTP_SCALE_SHIFT)
#define MINSEC 256 /* min interval between updates (s) */
#define MAXSEC 2048 /* max interval between updates (s) */
#define NTP_PHASE_LIMIT ((MAXPHASE / NSEC_PER_USEC) << 5) /* beyond max. dispersion */
/* Required to safely shift negative values */
Annotation
- Immediate include surface: `uapi/linux/timex.h`, `linux/compiler.h`, `linux/types.h`, `linux/param.h`, `asm/timex.h`.
- Atlas domain: Core OS / Core Kernel Interface.
- Implementation status: source implementation candidate.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.