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1 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
2 /*
3  * tracing clocks
4  *
5  *  Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
6  *
7  * Implements 3 trace clock variants, with differing scalability/precision
8  * tradeoffs:
9  *
10  *  -   local: CPU-local trace clock
11  *  -  medium: scalable global clock with some jitter
12  *  -  global: globally monotonic, serialized clock
13  *
14  * Tracer plugins will chose a default from these clocks.
15  */
16 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
17 #include <linux/irqflags.h>
18 #include <linux/hardirq.h>
19 #include <linux/module.h>
20 #include <linux/percpu.h>
21 #include <linux/sched.h>
22 #include <linux/sched/clock.h>
23 #include <linux/ktime.h>
24 #include <linux/trace_clock.h>
25 
26 /*
27  * trace_clock_local(): the simplest and least coherent tracing clock.
28  *
29  * Useful for tracing that does not cross to other CPUs nor
30  * does it go through idle events.
31  */
32 u64 notrace trace_clock_local(void)
33 {
34 	u64 clock;
35 
36 	/*
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.
40 	 */
41 	preempt_disable_notrace();
42 	clock = sched_clock();
43 	preempt_enable_notrace();
44 
45 	return clock;
46 }
47 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(trace_clock_local);
48 
49 /*
50  * trace_clock(): 'between' trace clock. Not completely serialized,
51  * but not completely incorrect when crossing CPUs either.
52  *
53  * This is based on cpu_clock(), which will allow at most ~1 jiffy of
54  * jitter between CPUs. So it's a pretty scalable clock, but there
55  * can be offsets in the trace data.
56  */
57 u64 notrace trace_clock(void)
58 {
59 	return local_clock();
60 }
61 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(trace_clock);
62 
63 /*
64  * trace_jiffy_clock(): Simply use jiffies as a clock counter.
65  * Note that this use of jiffies_64 is not completely safe on
66  * 32-bit systems. But the window is tiny, and the effect if
67  * we are affected is that we will have an obviously bogus
68  * timestamp on a trace event - i.e. not life threatening.
69  */
70 u64 notrace trace_clock_jiffies(void)
71 {
72 	return jiffies_64_to_clock_t(jiffies_64 - INITIAL_JIFFIES);
73 }
74 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(trace_clock_jiffies);
75 
76 /*
77  * trace_clock_global(): special globally coherent trace clock
78  *
79  * It has higher overhead than the other trace clocks but is still
80  * an order of magnitude faster than GTOD derived hardware clocks.
81  *
82  * Used by plugins that need globally coherent timestamps.
83  */
84 
85 /* keep prev_time and lock in the same cacheline. */
86 static struct {
87 	u64 prev_time;
88 	arch_spinlock_t lock;
89 } trace_clock_struct ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp =
90 	{
91 		.lock = (arch_spinlock_t)__ARCH_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED,
92 	};
93 
94 u64 notrace trace_clock_global(void)
95 {
96 	unsigned long flags;
97 	int this_cpu;
98 	u64 now;
99 
100 	raw_local_irq_save(flags);
101 
102 	this_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
103 	now = sched_clock_cpu(this_cpu);
104 	/*
105 	 * If in an NMI context then dont risk lockups and return the
106 	 * cpu_clock() time:
107 	 */
108 	if (unlikely(in_nmi()))
109 		goto out;
110 
111 	arch_spin_lock(&trace_clock_struct.lock);
112 
113 	/*
114 	 * TODO: if this happens often then maybe we should reset
115 	 * my_scd->clock to prev_time+1, to make sure
116 	 * we start ticking with the local clock from now on?
117 	 */
118 	if ((s64)(now - trace_clock_struct.prev_time) < 0)
119 		now = trace_clock_struct.prev_time + 1;
120 
121 	trace_clock_struct.prev_time = now;
122 
123 	arch_spin_unlock(&trace_clock_struct.lock);
124 
125  out:
126 	raw_local_irq_restore(flags);
127 
128 	return now;
129 }
130 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(trace_clock_global);
131 
132 static atomic64_t trace_counter;
133 
134 /*
135  * trace_clock_counter(): simply an atomic counter.
136  * Use the trace_counter "counter" for cases where you do not care
137  * about timings, but are interested in strict ordering.
138  */
139 u64 notrace trace_clock_counter(void)
140 {
141 	return atomic64_add_return(1, &trace_counter);
142 }
143