[RFC patch 08/15] LTTng - Timestamping

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Thu Oct 16 2008 - 20:01:41 EST


Wrapper to use the lower level clock sources available on the systems. Fall-back
on jiffies or'd with a logical clock for architectures lacking CPU timestamp
counters. Fall-back on a mixed TSC-logical clock on architectures lacking
synchronized TSC on SMP.

A generic fallback based on a logical clock and the timer interrupt is
available.

generic - Uses jiffies or'd with a logical clock extended to 64 bits by
ltt-timestamp.c.
i386 - Uses TSC. If detects non synchronized TSC, uses mixed TSC-logical clock.
mips - Uses TSC extended atomically from 32 to 64 bits by ltt-heartbeat.c.
powerpc - Uses TSC or generic ltt clock.
x86_64 - Uses TSC. If detects non synchronized TSC, uses mixed TSC-logical clock

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
CC: paulus@xxxxxxxxx
CC: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
include/asm-generic/ltt.h | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/ltt.h | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++
kernel/timer.c | 2 +
3 files changed, 82 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6-lttng/kernel/timer.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/kernel/timer.c 2008-09-16 14:50:15.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6-lttng/kernel/timer.c 2008-09-16 14:59:17.000000000 -0400
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/tick.h>
#include <linux/kallsyms.h>
+#include <linux/ltt.h>

#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/unistd.h>
@@ -1066,6 +1067,7 @@ void do_timer(unsigned long ticks)
{
jiffies_64 += ticks;
update_times(ticks);
+ ltt_add_timestamp(ticks);
}

#ifdef __ARCH_WANT_SYS_ALARM
Index: linux-2.6-lttng/include/linux/ltt.h
===================================================================
--- /dev/null 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6-lttng/include/linux/ltt.h 2008-09-16 14:58:47.000000000 -0400
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#ifndef _LINUX_LTT_H
+#define _LINUX_LTT_H
+
+/*
+ * Generic LTT clock.
+ *
+ * Chooses between an architecture specific clock or an atomic logical clock.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2007 Mathieu Desnoyers (mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx)
+ */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_LTT_TIMESTAMP
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_LTT_CLOCK
+#include <asm/ltt.h>
+#else
+#include <asm-generic/ltt.h>
+
+#define ltt_get_timestamp32 ltt_get_timestamp32_generic
+#define ltt_get_timestamp64 ltt_get_timestamp64_generic
+#define ltt_add_timestamp ltt_add_timestamp_generic
+#define ltt_frequency ltt_frequency_generic
+#define ltt_freq_scale ltt_freq_scale_generic
+#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_LTT_CLOCK */
+#else
+#define ltt_add_timestamp(ticks)
+#endif /* CONFIG_LTT_TIMESTAMP */
+#endif /* _LINUX_LTT_H */
Index: linux-2.6-lttng/include/asm-generic/ltt.h
===================================================================
--- /dev/null 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6-lttng/include/asm-generic/ltt.h 2008-09-16 14:58:47.000000000 -0400
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+#ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_LTT_H
+#define _ASM_GENERIC_LTT_H
+
+/*
+ * linux/include/asm-generic/ltt.h
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2007 - Mathieu Desnoyers (mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx)
+ *
+ * Generic definitions for LTT
+ * Architectures without TSC
+ */
+
+#include <linux/param.h> /* For HZ */
+#include <asm/atomic.h>
+
+#define LTT_GENERIC_CLOCK_SHIFT 13
+
+u64 ltt_read_synthetic_tsc(void);
+
+extern atomic_t lttng_generic_clock;
+
+static inline u32 ltt_get_timestamp32_generic(void)
+{
+ return atomic_add_return(1, &lttng_generic_clock);
+}
+
+static inline u64 ltt_get_timestamp64_generic(void)
+{
+ return ltt_read_synthetic_tsc();
+}
+
+static inline void ltt_add_timestamp_generic(unsigned long ticks)
+{
+ int old_clock, new_clock;
+
+ do {
+ old_clock = atomic_read(&lttng_generic_clock);
+ new_clock = (old_clock + (ticks << LTT_GENERIC_CLOCK_SHIFT))
+ & (~((1 << LTT_GENERIC_CLOCK_SHIFT) - 1));
+ } while (atomic_cmpxchg(&lttng_generic_clock, old_clock, new_clock)
+ != old_clock);
+}
+
+static inline unsigned int ltt_frequency_generic(void)
+{
+ return HZ << LTT_GENERIC_CLOCK_SHIFT;
+}
+
+static inline u32 ltt_freq_scale_generic(void)
+{
+ return 1;
+}
+#endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_LTT_H */

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Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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