4 * Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
6 * Implements 3 trace clock variants, with differing scalability/precision
9 * - local: CPU-local trace clock
10 * - medium: scalable global clock with some jitter
11 * - global: globally monotonic, serialized clock
13 * Tracer plugins will chose a default from these clocks.
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>
27 * trace_clock_local(): the simplest and least coherent tracing clock.
29 * Useful for tracing that does not cross to other CPUs nor
30 * does it go through idle events.
32 u64 notrace trace_clock_local(void)
37 * sched_clock() is an architecture implemented, fast, scalable,
38 * lockless clock. It is not guaranteed to be coherent across
39 * CPUs, nor across CPU idle events.
41 preempt_disable_notrace();
42 clock = sched_clock();
43 preempt_enable_notrace();
49 * trace_clock(): 'between' trace clock. Not completely serialized,
50 * but not completely incorrect when crossing CPUs either.
52 * This is based on cpu_clock(), which will allow at most ~1 jiffy of
53 * jitter between CPUs. So it's a pretty scalable clock, but there
54 * can be offsets in the trace data.
56 u64 notrace trace_clock(void)
63 * trace_clock_global(): special globally coherent trace clock
65 * It has higher overhead than the other trace clocks but is still
66 * an order of magnitude faster than GTOD derived hardware clocks.
68 * Used by plugins that need globally coherent timestamps.
71 /* keep prev_time and lock in the same cacheline. */
75 } trace_clock_struct ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp =
77 .lock = (arch_spinlock_t)__ARCH_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED,
80 u64 notrace trace_clock_global(void)
86 local_irq_save(flags);
88 this_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
89 now = cpu_clock(this_cpu);
91 * If in an NMI context then dont risk lockups and return the
94 if (unlikely(in_nmi()))
97 arch_spin_lock(&trace_clock_struct.lock);
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?
104 if ((s64)(now - trace_clock_struct.prev_time) < 0)
105 now = trace_clock_struct.prev_time + 1;
107 trace_clock_struct.prev_time = now;
109 arch_spin_unlock(&trace_clock_struct.lock);
112 local_irq_restore(flags);
117 static atomic64_t trace_counter;
120 * trace_clock_counter(): simply an atomic counter.
121 * Use the trace_counter "counter" for cases where you do not care
122 * about timings, but are interested in strict ordering.
124 u64 notrace trace_clock_counter(void)
126 return atomic64_add_return(1, &trace_counter);