From 7806f60e1d205db46eca6ad24429b3f86eda2588 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Walleij Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:52:27 +0200 Subject: clocksource: document some basic timekeeping concepts This adds some documentation about clock sources, clock events, the weak sched_clock() function and delay timers that answers questions that repeatedly arise on the mailing lists. Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Nicolas Pitre Cc: Colin Cross Cc: John Stultz Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre Signed-off-by: John Stultz --- Documentation/timers/00-INDEX | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/timers/00-INDEX') diff --git a/Documentation/timers/00-INDEX b/Documentation/timers/00-INDEX index 6d042dc1cce0..ee212a27772f 100644 --- a/Documentation/timers/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/timers/00-INDEX @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ Makefile - Build and link hpet_example NO_HZ.txt - Summary of the different methods for the scheduler clock-interrupts management. +timekeeping.txt + - Clock sources, clock events, sched_clock() and delay timer notes timers-howto.txt - how to insert delays in the kernel the right (tm) way. timer_stats.txt -- cgit