on clock drivers.
This tracks multiple concurrent realtime clock drivers in a list sorted by
clock resolution. When system time changes (and periodically) the
clock_settime() methods of all registered clocks are invoked.
To initialize system time, each driver is tried in turn from best to worst
resolution, until one succesfully returns a valid time.
The code no longer holds a mutex while calling the clock_settime() and
clock_gettime() methods of the registered clocks. This allows clock drivers
to do whatever kind of locking or sleeping is necessary (this is especially
important for i2c clock chips since i2c drivers often need to sleep).
A new clock_register_flags() function allows the clock driver to pass
flags. The flags currently defined help support drivers that use their own
techniques to avoid roundoff errors (prevents the 4/5 rounding done by the
subr_rtc code). A driver which may need to wait for resources (such as bus
ownership) may pass a flag to indicate that it will obtain system time for
itself after waiting for resources; this is merely an optimization to avoid
the common code retrieving a timespec that will never get used.
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11484
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