ktime.h: Introduce ktime_ms_delta

This patch adds a reusable time difference function which returns the
difference in millisecond, as often used in some driver code, e.g.
mtd/test, media/rc, etc.

Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@linaro.org>
Cc: zhang.lyra@gmail.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Cc: dborkman@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1418793095-18780-1-git-send-email-zhang.chunyan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

diff --git a/include/linux/ktime.h b/include/linux/ktime.h
index c9d645ad98ff7ac9919f0fee00808cfd0e4963f7..891ea92a68b0d937f2620e28b546796aac46361c 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/ktime.h
+++ b/include/linux/ktime.h
@@ -186,6 +186,11 @@ static inline s64 ktime_us_delta(const ktime_t later, const ktime_t earlier)
        return ktime_to_us(ktime_sub(later, earlier));
 }
 
+static inline s64 ktime_ms_delta(const ktime_t later, const ktime_t earlier)
+{
+       return ktime_to_ms(ktime_sub(later, earlier));
+}
+
 static inline ktime_t ktime_add_us(const ktime_t kt, const u64 usec)
 {
        return ktime_add_ns(kt, usec * NSEC_PER_USEC);