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As Dave Chinner points out, we don't have a proper documentation for the ktime_get() family of interfaces, making it rather unclear which of the over 30 (!) interfaces one should actually use in a driver or elsewhere in the kernel. I wrote up an explanation from how I personally see the interfaces, documenting what each of the functions do and hopefully making it a bit clearer which should be used where. This is the first time I tried writing .rst format documentation, so in addition to any mistakes in the content, I probably also introduce nonstandard formatting ;-) I first tried to add an extra section to Documentation/timers/timekeeping.txt, but this is currently not included in the generated API, and it seems useful to have the API docs as part of what gets generated in https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/core-api/index.html#core-utilities instead, so I started a new file there. I also considered adding the documentation inline in the include/linux/timekeeping.h header, but couldn't figure out how to do that in a way that would result both in helpful inline comments as well as readable html output, so I settled for the latter, with a small note pointing to it from the header. Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.