bpf: Add BPF-helper for accessing CLOCK_TAI
Commit 3dc6ffae ("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.deSigned-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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