bpf: Add BPF-helper for accessing CLOCK_TAI

Commit 3dc6ffae2d ("timekeeping: Introduce fast accessor to clock tai")
introduced a fast and NMI-safe accessor for CLOCK_TAI. Especially in time
sensitive networks (TSN), where all nodes are synchronized by Precision Time
Protocol (PTP), it's helpful to have the possibility to generate timestamps
based on CLOCK_TAI instead of CLOCK_MONOTONIC. With a BPF helper for TAI in
place, it becomes very convenient to correlate activity across different
machines in the network.

Use cases for such a BPF helper include functionalities such as Tx launch
time (e.g. ETF and TAPRIO Qdiscs) and timestamping.

Note: CLOCK_TAI is nothing new per se, only the NMI-safe variant of it is.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
[Kurt: Wrote changelog and renamed helper]
Signed-off-by: Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220809060803.5773-2-kurt@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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Jesper Dangaard Brouer 2022-08-09 08:08:02 +02:00 committed by Alexei Starovoitov
parent b2d8ef19c6
commit c8996c98f7
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@ -2623,6 +2623,7 @@ const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_get_numa_node_id_proto __weak;
const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_ktime_get_ns_proto __weak;
const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_ktime_get_boot_ns_proto __weak;
const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_ktime_get_coarse_ns_proto __weak;
const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_ktime_get_tai_ns_proto __weak;
const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_get_current_pid_tgid_proto __weak;
const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_get_current_uid_gid_proto __weak;