linux/kernel/trace/trace_clock.c
Ingo Molnar 14131f2f98 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>
2009-02-26 18:44:06 +01:00

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/*
* 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;
}