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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-02-26 18:47:11 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-02-26 18:44:06 +0100 |
commit | 14131f2f98ac350ee9e73faed916d2238a8b6a0d (patch) | |
tree | bf490d104276142e914f1245bbc9f44cb0d2bc9b /kernel/trace/trace_clock.c | |
parent | 6409c4da289d6905f7ae2bd0630438368439bda2 (diff) | |
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tracing: implement trace_clock_*() APIs
Impact: implement new tracing timestamp APIs
Add three 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
Make the ring-buffer use the local trace clock internally.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace_clock.c')
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1 files changed, 101 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_clock.c b/kernel/trace/trace_clock.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..2d4953f93560 --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_clock.c @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ +/* + * tracing clocks + * + * Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> + * + * Implements 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 + * + * Tracer plugins will chose a default from these clocks. + */ +#include <linux/spinlock.h> +#include <linux/hardirq.h> +#include <linux/module.h> +#include <linux/percpu.h> +#include <linux/sched.h> +#include <linux/ktime.h> + +/* + * trace_clock_local(): the simplest and least coherent tracing clock. + * + * Useful for tracing that does not cross to other CPUs nor + * does it go through idle events. + */ +u64 notrace trace_clock_local(void) +{ + /* + * sched_clock() is an architecture implemented, fast, scalable, + * lockless clock. It is not guaranteed to be coherent across + * CPUs, nor across CPU idle events. + */ + return sched_clock(); +} + +/* + * trace_clock(): 'inbetween' trace clock. Not completely serialized, + * but not completely incorrect when crossing CPUs either. + * + * This is based on cpu_clock(), which will allow at most ~1 jiffy of + * jitter between CPUs. So it's a pretty scalable clock, but there + * can be offsets in the trace data. + */ +u64 notrace trace_clock(void) +{ + return cpu_clock(raw_smp_processor_id()); +} + + +/* + * trace_clock_global(): special globally coherent trace clock + * + * It has higher overhead than the other trace clocks but is still + * an order of magnitude faster than GTOD derived hardware clocks. + * + * Used by plugins that need globally coherent timestamps. + */ + +static u64 prev_trace_clock_time; + +static raw_spinlock_t trace_clock_lock ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp = + (raw_spinlock_t)__RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; + +u64 notrace trace_clock_global(void) +{ + unsigned long flags; + int this_cpu; + u64 now; + + raw_local_irq_save(flags); + + this_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id(); + now = cpu_clock(this_cpu); + /* + * If in an NMI context then dont risk lockups and return the + * cpu_clock() time: + */ + if (unlikely(in_nmi())) + goto out; + + __raw_spin_lock(&trace_clock_lock); + + /* + * TODO: if this happens often then maybe we should reset + * my_scd->clock to prev_trace_clock_time+1, to make sure + * we start ticking with the local clock from now on? + */ + if ((s64)(now - prev_trace_clock_time) < 0) + now = prev_trace_clock_time + 1; + + prev_trace_clock_time = now; + + __raw_spin_unlock(&trace_clock_lock); + + out: + raw_local_irq_restore(flags); + + return now; +} |