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 <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/ktime.h b/include/linux/ktime.h
index c9d645ad98ff..891ea92a68b0 100644
--- 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);