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Introduction to `clocksource`
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The `clocksource` concept represents generic API for clock sources management in the Linux kernel. Why do we need separate framework for this? Let's go back to the beginning. The `time` concept is fundamental concept in the Linux kernel and other operating system kernels. And the timekeeping is one of the necessities to use this concept. For example Linux kernel must know and update the time elapsed since system startup, it must determine how long the current process has been running for every processor and many many more. Where the Linux kernel can get information about time? First of all it is Real Time Clock or [RTC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_clock) that represents by the a nonvolatile device. You can find a set of architecture-independend real time clock drivers in the Linux kernel in the [drivers/rtc](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/rtc) directory. Besides this, each architecture can provide a driver for the architecture-dependend real time clock, for example - `CMOS/RTC` - [arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c) for the [x86](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86) architecture. The second is system timer - timer that excites [interrupts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt) with a periodic rate. For example, for [IBM PC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer) compatibles it was - [programmable interval timer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_interval_timer).
The `clocksource` concept represents generic API for clock sources management in the Linux kernel. Why do we need separate framework for this? Let's go back to the beginning. The `time` concept is fundamental concept in the Linux kernel and other operating system kernels. And the timekeeping is one of the necessities to use this concept. For example Linux kernel must know and update the time elapsed since system startup, it must determine how long the current process has been running for every processor and many many more. Where the Linux kernel can get information about time? First of all it is Real Time Clock or [RTC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_clock) that represents by the a nonvolatile device. You can find a set of architecture-independent real time clock drivers in the Linux kernel in the [drivers/rtc](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/rtc) directory. Besides this, each architecture can provide a driver for the architecture-dependent real time clock, for example - `CMOS/RTC` - [arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c) for the [x86](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86) architecture. The second is system timer - timer that excites [interrupts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt) with a periodic rate. For example, for [IBM PC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer) compatibles it was - [programmable interval timer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_interval_timer).
We already know that for timekeeping purposes we can use `jiffies` in the Linux kernel. The `jiffies` can be considered as read only global variable which is updated with `HZ` frequency. We know that the `HZ` is a compile-time kernel parameter whose reasonable range is from `100` to `1000` [Hz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertz). So, it is guaranteed to have an interface for time measurement with `1` - `10` milliseconds resolution. Besides standard `jiffies`, we saw the `refined_jiffies` clock source in the previous part that is based on the `i8253/i8254` [programmable interval timer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_interval_timer) tick rate which is almost `1193182` hertz. So we can get something about `1` microsecond resolution with the `refined_jiffies`. In this time, [nanoseconds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanosecond) are the favorite choice for the time value units of the given clock source.
The availability of more precise techniques for time intervals measurement is hardware-dependend. We just knew a little about `x86` dependend timers hardware. But each architecture provides own timers hardware. Earlier each architecture had own implementation for this purpose. Solution of this problem is an abstraction layer and associated API in a common code framework for managing various clock sources and independent of the timer interrupt. This commn code framework became - `clocksource` framework.
The availability of more precise techniques for time intervals measurement is hardware-dependent. We just knew a little about `x86` dependent timers hardware. But each architecture provides own timers hardware. Earlier each architecture had own implementation for this purpose. Solution of this problem is an abstraction layer and associated API in a common code framework for managing various clock sources and independent of the timer interrupt. This commn code framework became - `clocksource` framework.
Generic timeofday and clock source management framework moved lot of timekeeping code into architecture independent portion of code, with architecture portion reduced to defining and managing low level hardware pieces of clocksources. A large amount of funds to measure the time interval on different architectures with different hardware is a big complexity. Implementation of the each clock releated service is strongly associated with an individual hardware device and as you can understand, it results in similar implementations for different architectures.