trace_clock.c 3.5 KB

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  1. /*
  2. * tracing clocks
  3. *
  4. * Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
  5. *
  6. * Implements 3 trace clock variants, with differing scalability/precision
  7. * tradeoffs:
  8. *
  9. * - local: CPU-local trace clock
  10. * - medium: scalable global clock with some jitter
  11. * - global: globally monotonic, serialized clock
  12. *
  13. * Tracer plugins will chose a default from these clocks.
  14. */
  15. #include <linux/spinlock.h>
  16. #include <linux/irqflags.h>
  17. #include <linux/hardirq.h>
  18. #include <linux/module.h>
  19. #include <linux/percpu.h>
  20. #include <linux/sched.h>
  21. #include <linux/ktime.h>
  22. #include <linux/trace_clock.h>
  23. /*
  24. * trace_clock_local(): the simplest and least coherent tracing clock.
  25. *
  26. * Useful for tracing that does not cross to other CPUs nor
  27. * does it go through idle events.
  28. */
  29. u64 notrace trace_clock_local(void)
  30. {
  31. u64 clock;
  32. /*
  33. * sched_clock() is an architecture implemented, fast, scalable,
  34. * lockless clock. It is not guaranteed to be coherent across
  35. * CPUs, nor across CPU idle events.
  36. */
  37. preempt_disable_notrace();
  38. clock = sched_clock();
  39. preempt_enable_notrace();
  40. return clock;
  41. }
  42. EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(trace_clock_local);
  43. /*
  44. * trace_clock(): 'between' trace clock. Not completely serialized,
  45. * but not completely incorrect when crossing CPUs either.
  46. *
  47. * This is based on cpu_clock(), which will allow at most ~1 jiffy of
  48. * jitter between CPUs. So it's a pretty scalable clock, but there
  49. * can be offsets in the trace data.
  50. */
  51. u64 notrace trace_clock(void)
  52. {
  53. return local_clock();
  54. }
  55. EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(trace_clock);
  56. /*
  57. * trace_jiffy_clock(): Simply use jiffies as a clock counter.
  58. * Note that this use of jiffies_64 is not completely safe on
  59. * 32-bit systems. But the window is tiny, and the effect if
  60. * we are affected is that we will have an obviously bogus
  61. * timestamp on a trace event - i.e. not life threatening.
  62. */
  63. u64 notrace trace_clock_jiffies(void)
  64. {
  65. return jiffies_64_to_clock_t(jiffies_64 - INITIAL_JIFFIES);
  66. }
  67. EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(trace_clock_jiffies);
  68. /*
  69. * trace_clock_global(): special globally coherent trace clock
  70. *
  71. * It has higher overhead than the other trace clocks but is still
  72. * an order of magnitude faster than GTOD derived hardware clocks.
  73. *
  74. * Used by plugins that need globally coherent timestamps.
  75. */
  76. /* keep prev_time and lock in the same cacheline. */
  77. static struct {
  78. u64 prev_time;
  79. arch_spinlock_t lock;
  80. } trace_clock_struct ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp =
  81. {
  82. .lock = (arch_spinlock_t)__ARCH_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED,
  83. };
  84. u64 notrace trace_clock_global(void)
  85. {
  86. unsigned long flags;
  87. int this_cpu;
  88. u64 now;
  89. local_irq_save(flags);
  90. this_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
  91. now = sched_clock_cpu(this_cpu);
  92. /*
  93. * If in an NMI context then dont risk lockups and return the
  94. * cpu_clock() time:
  95. */
  96. if (unlikely(in_nmi()))
  97. goto out;
  98. arch_spin_lock(&trace_clock_struct.lock);
  99. /*
  100. * TODO: if this happens often then maybe we should reset
  101. * my_scd->clock to prev_time+1, to make sure
  102. * we start ticking with the local clock from now on?
  103. */
  104. if ((s64)(now - trace_clock_struct.prev_time) < 0)
  105. now = trace_clock_struct.prev_time + 1;
  106. trace_clock_struct.prev_time = now;
  107. arch_spin_unlock(&trace_clock_struct.lock);
  108. out:
  109. local_irq_restore(flags);
  110. return now;
  111. }
  112. EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(trace_clock_global);
  113. static atomic64_t trace_counter;
  114. /*
  115. * trace_clock_counter(): simply an atomic counter.
  116. * Use the trace_counter "counter" for cases where you do not care
  117. * about timings, but are interested in strict ordering.
  118. */
  119. u64 notrace trace_clock_counter(void)
  120. {
  121. return atomic64_add_return(1, &trace_counter);
  122. }