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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/hardirq.h>
17#include <linux/module.h>
18#include <linux/percpu.h>
19#include <linux/sched.h>
20#include <linux/ktime.h>
21
22/*
23 * trace_clock_local(): the simplest and least coherent tracing clock.
24 *
25 * Useful for tracing that does not cross to other CPUs nor
26 * does it go through idle events.
27 */
28u64 notrace trace_clock_local(void)
29{
30 /*
31 * sched_clock() is an architecture implemented, fast, scalable,
32 * lockless clock. It is not guaranteed to be coherent across
33 * CPUs, nor across CPU idle events.
34 */
35 return sched_clock();
36}
37
38/*
39 * trace_clock(): 'inbetween' trace clock. Not completely serialized,
40 * but not completely incorrect when crossing CPUs either.
41 *
42 * This is based on cpu_clock(), which will allow at most ~1 jiffy of
43 * jitter between CPUs. So it's a pretty scalable clock, but there
44 * can be offsets in the trace data.
45 */
46u64 notrace trace_clock(void)
47{
48 return cpu_clock(raw_smp_processor_id());
49}
50
51
52/*
53 * trace_clock_global(): special globally coherent trace clock
54 *
55 * It has higher overhead than the other trace clocks but is still
56 * an order of magnitude faster than GTOD derived hardware clocks.
57 *
58 * Used by plugins that need globally coherent timestamps.
59 */
60
61static u64 prev_trace_clock_time;
62
63static raw_spinlock_t trace_clock_lock ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp =
64 (raw_spinlock_t)__RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
65
66u64 notrace trace_clock_global(void)
67{
68 unsigned long flags;
69 int this_cpu;
70 u64 now;
71
72 raw_local_irq_save(flags);
73
74 this_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
75 now = cpu_clock(this_cpu);
76 /*
77 * If in an NMI context then dont risk lockups and return the
78 * cpu_clock() time:
79 */
80 if (unlikely(in_nmi()))
81 goto out;
82
83 __raw_spin_lock(&trace_clock_lock);
84
85 /*
86 * TODO: if this happens often then maybe we should reset
87 * my_scd->clock to prev_trace_clock_time+1, to make sure
88 * we start ticking with the local clock from now on?
89 */
90 if ((s64)(now - prev_trace_clock_time) < 0)
91 now = prev_trace_clock_time + 1;
92
93 prev_trace_clock_time = now;
94
95 __raw_spin_unlock(&trace_clock_lock);
96
97 out:
98 raw_local_irq_restore(flags);
99
100 return now;
101}