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fix typo of "closk"
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@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ At first let's refresh your memory and try to remember what is it `clocksource`
> For example issuing the command 'date' on a Linux system will eventually read the clock source to determine exactly what time it is.
The Linux kernel supports many different clock sources. You can find some of them in the [drivers/closksource](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/clocksource). For example old good [Intel 8253](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8253) - [programmable interval timer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_interval_timer) with `1193182` Hz frequency, yet another one - [ACPI PM](http://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_5.pdf) timer with `3579545` Hz frequency. Besides the [drivers/closksource](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/clocksource) directory, each architecture may provide own architecture-specific clock sources. For example [x86](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86) architecture provides [High Precision Event Timer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Precision_Event_Timer), or for example [powerpc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC) provides access to the processor timer through `timebase` register.
The Linux kernel supports many different clock sources. You can find some of them in the [drivers/clocksource](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/clocksource). For example old good [Intel 8253](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8253) - [programmable interval timer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_interval_timer) with `1193182` Hz frequency, yet another one - [ACPI PM](http://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_5.pdf) timer with `3579545` Hz frequency. Besides the [drivers/clocksource](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/clocksource) directory, each architecture may provide own architecture-specific clock sources. For example [x86](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86) architecture provides [High Precision Event Timer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Precision_Event_Timer), or for example [powerpc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC) provides access to the processor timer through `timebase` register.
Each clock source provides monotonic atomic counter. As I already wrote, the Linux kernel supports a huge set of different clock source and each clock source has own parameters like [frequency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency). The main goal of the `clocksource` framework is to provide [API](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface) to select best available clock source in the system i.e. a clock source with the highest frequency. Additional goal of the `clocksource` framework is to represent an atomic counter provided by a clock source in human units. In this time, nanoseconds are the favorite choice for the time value units of the given clock source in the Linux kernel.
@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ This function defined in the [kernel/time/clockevents.c](https://github.com/torv
* address of a `clock_event_device` structure which represents a clock event device.
So, to register a clock event device, at first we need to initialize `clock_event_device` structure with parameters of a certain clock event device. Let's take a look at one random clock event device in the Linux kernel source code. We can find one in the [drivers/closksource](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/clocksource) directory or try to take a look at an architecture-specific clock event device. Let's take for example - [Periodic Interval Timer (PIT) for at91sam926x](http://www.atmel.com/Images/doc6062.pdf). You can find its implementation in the [drivers/closksource](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/clocksource/timer-atmel-pit.c).
So, to register a clock event device, at first we need to initialize `clock_event_device` structure with parameters of a certain clock event device. Let's take a look at one random clock event device in the Linux kernel source code. We can find one in the [drivers/clocksource](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/clocksource) directory or try to take a look at an architecture-specific clock event device. Let's take for example - [Periodic Interval Timer (PIT) for at91sam926x](http://www.atmel.com/Images/doc6062.pdf). You can find its implementation in the [drivers/clocksource](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/clocksource/timer-atmel-pit.c).
First of all let's look at initialization of the `clock_event_device` structure. This occurs in the `at91sam926x_pit_common_init` function: