Re: [PATCH] Boottime: A tool for automatic measurement ofkernel/bootloader boot time

From: Lee Jones
Date: Fri Oct 12 2012 - 12:42:21 EST


On Fri, 12 Oct 2012, Dan Murphy wrote:

>
> On 10/12/2012 09:01 AM, Lee Jones wrote:
> >On Fri, 12 Oct 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >
> >>On Friday 12 October 2012, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> >>>>root@ME:/ cat /sys/kernel/debug/boottime/bootgraph
> >>>>[ 0.185254] calling splash+0x0/0x0
> >>>>[ 2.984335] initcall splash+0x0/0x0 returned 0 after 2799 msecs.
> >>>>[ 2.984335] calling autoboot_delay+0x0/0x0
> >>>>[ 4.089513] initcall autoboot_delay+0x0/0x0 returned 0 after 1105 msecs.
> >>>>[ 4.089513] calling load_kernel+0x0/0x0
> >>>>[ 4.239174] initcall load_kernel+0x0/0x0 returned 0 after 149 msecs.
> >>>>[ 4.239174] calling boot_kernel+0x0/0x0
> >>>>[ 4.276260] initcall boot_kernel+0x0/0x0 returned 0 after 37 msecs.
> >>>>[ 4.276260] calling uncompress_ll_init+0x0/0x0
> >>>>[ 4.276260] initcall uncompress_ll_init+0x0/0x0 returned 0 after 0 msecs.
> >>>>[ 4.276260] Freeing init memory: 0K
> >>>Umm, what happened to sysfs not becoming procfs v2? I thought we had
> >>>a fairly strict requirement for "one value per file and not nicely
> >>>formatted" for sysfs?
> >>>
> >>I was thinking the same thing at first, but then I noticed it's actually
> >>debugfs, which has no such rules.
> >Right. :)
> >
> OK I don't see when boottime_activate is called.
>
> Where would this call actually be made from?
>
> I see the call to deactivate but no call to activate.

Here perhaps (Jonas, alerted me to the missing patch):

commit 4c49a18bcfd2d041cbad7f41c6e6b39d90008382 (HEAD, refs/heads/dt-snowball-pre-rc1)
Author: Jonas Aaberg <jonas.aberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Sep 14 09:29:20 2011 +0200

drivers: clocksource: dbx500-prcmu: Add boottime support

Change-Id: I9b5e3d050131c08c08786ae84cb76619c0525049
Signed-off-by: Jonas Aaberg <jonas.aberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.lud.stericsson.com/gerrit/32055

diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/clksrc-dbx500-prcmu.c b/drivers/clocksource/clksrc-dbx500-prcmu.c
index c26c369..0069cd9 100644
--- a/drivers/clocksource/clksrc-dbx500-prcmu.c
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/clksrc-dbx500-prcmu.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
*/
#include <linux/clockchips.h>
#include <linux/clksrc-dbx500-prcmu.h>
+#include <linux/boottime.h>

#include <asm/sched_clock.h>

@@ -68,6 +69,23 @@ static u32 notrace dbx500_prcmu_sched_clock_read(void)

#endif

+#ifdef CONFIG_BOOTTIME
+static unsigned long __init boottime_get_time(void)
+{
+ return div_s64(clocksource_cyc2ns(clocksource_dbx500_prcmu.read(
+ &clocksource_dbx500_prcmu),
+ clocksource_dbx500_prcmu.mult,
+ clocksource_dbx500_prcmu.shift),
+ 1000);
+}
+
+static struct boottime_timer __initdata boottime_timer = {
+ .init = NULL,
+ .get_time = boottime_get_time,
+ .finalize = NULL,
+};
+#endif
+
void __init clksrc_dbx500_prcmu_init(void __iomem *base)
{
clksrc_dbx500_timer_base = base;
@@ -90,4 +108,6 @@ void __init clksrc_dbx500_prcmu_init(void __iomem *base)
32, RATE_32K);
#endif
clocksource_register_hz(&clocksource_dbx500_prcmu, RATE_32K);
+
+ boottime_activate(&boottime_timer);
}

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