diff --git a/include/linux/trace_clock.h b/include/linux/trace_clock.h
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+++ b/include/linux/trace_clock.h
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+#ifndef _LINUX_TRACE_CLOCK_H
+#define _LINUX_TRACE_CLOCK_H
+
+/*
+ * 3 trace clock variants, with differing scalability/precision
+ * tradeoffs:
+ *
+ *  -   local: CPU-local trace clock
+ *  -  medium: scalable global clock with some jitter
+ *  -  global: globally monotonic, serialized clock
+ */
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+extern u64 notrace trace_clock_local(void);
+extern u64 notrace trace_clock(void);
+extern u64 notrace trace_clock_global(void);
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_TRACE_CLOCK_H */