Changed time representation to posix style struct timeval/ gettimeofday.

src/generic/time.c

@@ -29,20 +29,23 @@ static inline void increase_jiffies(void)
 }
 
 
-/* Represents time since epoch */
+/* Internal representation of time since epoch */
 struct time_info {
 	int reader;
 	u32 thz;	/* Ticks in this hertz so far */
-	u32 sec;
-	u32 min;
-	u32 hour;
-	u64 day;
+	u64 sec;	/* Seconds so far */
+};
+
+/* Used by posix systems */
+struct timeval {
+	int tv_sec;
+	int tv_usec;
 };
 
 static struct time_info systime = { 0 };
 
 /*
- * A terribly basic (probably erroneous)
+ * A very basic (probably erroneous)
  * rule-of-thumb time calculation.
  */
 void update_system_time(void)
@@ -54,41 +57,31 @@ void update_system_time(void)
 	/* Increase just like jiffies, but reset every HZ */
 	systime.thz++;
 
+	/* On every HZ increase seconds */
 	if (systime.thz == HZ) {
 		systime.thz = 0;
 		systime.sec++;
 	}
-	if (systime.sec == 60) {
-		systime.sec = 0;
-		systime.min++;
-	}
-	if (systime.min == 60) {
-		systime.min = 0;
-		systime.hour++;
-	}
-	if (systime.hour == 24) {
-		systime.hour = 0;
-		systime.day++;
-	}
 }
 
 /* Read system time */
 int sys_time(struct syscall_args *args)
 {
-       	struct time_info *ti = (struct time_info *)args->r0;
+       	struct timeval *tv = (struct timeval *)args->r0;
 	int set = (int)args->r1;
 	int retries = 20;
 
-	if (check_access((unsigned long)ti, sizeof(*ti), MAP_USR_RW_FLAGS) < 0)
+	if (check_access((unsigned long)tv, sizeof(*tv), MAP_USR_RW_FLAGS) < 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	/* Get time */
 	if (!set) {
 		while(retries > 0) {
 			systime.reader = 1;
-			memcpy(ti, &systime, sizeof(*ti));
-			retries--;
+			tv->tv_sec = systime.sec;
+			tv->tv_usec = 1000000 * systime.thz / HZ;
 
+			retries--;
 			if (systime.reader)
 				break;
 		}

tasks/fs0/main.c

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <kdata.h>
 #include <syscalls.h>
 #include <task.h>
+#include <posix/sys/time.h>
 
 /*
  * TODO:
@@ -99,7 +100,7 @@ void handle_fs_requests(void)
 
 void main(void)
 {
-	struct time_info ti;
+	struct timeval tv;
 
 	printf("\n%s: Started with tid: %d\n", __TASKNAME__, self_tid());
 
@@ -107,12 +108,11 @@ void main(void)
 
 	wait_pager(PAGER_TID);
 
-	if (l4_time(&ti, 0) < 0) {
+	if (gettimeofday(&tv, 0) < 0) {
 		printf("Reading the time has failed.\n");
 	} else {
-		printf("Current time since system started: %u ticks, "
-		       "%u seconds, %u minutes, %u hours, %llu days.\n",
-		       ti.thz, ti.sec, ti.min, ti.hour, ti.day);
+		printf("Current time since system started: %u useconds, "
+		       "%u seconds.\n", tv.tv_usec, tv.tv_sec);
 	}
 
 	printf("%s: Listening requests.\n", __TASKNAME__);

tasks/libl4/include/l4lib/arch-arm/syscalls.h

@@ -68,20 +68,9 @@ typedef int (*__l4_kmem_control_t)(unsigned long pfn, int npages, int grant);
 extern __l4_kmem_control_t __l4_kmem_control;
 int l4_kmem_control(unsigned long pfn, int npages, int grant);
 
-/* Represents time since epoch, a c0 specific structure. */
-struct time_info {
-	int reader;
-	u32 thz;	/* Ticks in this hertz so far */
-	u32 sec;
-	u32 min;
-	u32 hour;
-	u64 day;
-};
-
-typedef int (*__l4_time_t)(struct time_info *ti, int set);
+typedef int (*__l4_time_t)(void *timeval, int set);
 extern __l4_time_t __l4_time;
-int l4_time(void *time_info, int set);
-
+int l4_time(void *timeval, int set);
 
 
 /* To be supplied by server tasks. */

tasks/libposix/SConstruct

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ config_h = join(project_root, "include/l4/config.h")
 env = Environment(CC = 'arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc',
 		  CCFLAGS = ['-g', '-std=gnu99', '-nostdlib', '-ffreestanding'],
 		  LINKFLAGS = ['-nostdlib'],
+		  CPPPATH = ['#include'],
 		  ENV = {'PATH' : os.environ['PATH']},
 		  LIBS = 'gcc')
 

tasks/libposix/time.c

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+
+#include <l4lib/arch/syscalls.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+
+int gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv, struct timezone *tz)
+{
+	int ret = l4_time(tv, 0);
+
+	/* If error, return positive error code */
+	if (ret < 0) {
+		errno = -ret;
+		return -1;
+	}
+	/* else return value */
+	return ret;
+}