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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-05 11:04:19 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-05 11:04:19 -0700
commit714f83d5d9f7c785f622259dad1f4fad12d64664 (patch)
tree20563541ae438e11d686b4d629074eb002a481b7 /kernel/trace/trace_clock.c
parent8901e7ffc2fa78ede7ce9826dbad68a3a25dc2dc (diff)
parent645dae969c3b8651c5bc7c54a1835ec03820f85f (diff)
Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (413 commits) tracing, net: fix net tree and tracing tree merge interaction tracing, powerpc: fix powerpc tree and tracing tree interaction ring-buffer: do not remove reader page from list on ring buffer free function-graph: allow unregistering twice trace: make argument 'mem' of trace_seq_putmem() const tracing: add missing 'extern' keywords to trace_output.h tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve() blktrace: print out BLK_TN_MESSAGE properly blktrace: extract duplidate code blktrace: fix memory leak when freeing struct blk_io_trace blktrace: fix blk_probes_ref chaos blktrace: make classic output more classic blktrace: fix off-by-one bug blktrace: fix the original blktrace blktrace: fix a race when creating blk_tree_root in debugfs blktrace: fix timestamp in binary output tracing, Text Edit Lock: cleanup tracing: filter fix for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events ftrace: Using FTRACE_WARN_ON() to check "freed record" in ftrace_release() x86: kretprobe-booster interrupt emulation code fix ... Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/parisc/include/asm/ftrace.h include/linux/memory.h kernel/extable.c kernel/module.c
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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>
+#include <linux/trace_clock.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)
+{
+ unsigned long flags;
+ u64 clock;
+
+ /*
+ * sched_clock() is an architecture implemented, fast, scalable,
+ * lockless clock. It is not guaranteed to be coherent across
+ * CPUs, nor across CPU idle events.
+ */
+ raw_local_irq_save(flags);
+ clock = sched_clock();
+ raw_local_irq_restore(flags);
+
+ return 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;
+}