The latency tracer needs a way to get an accurate time without grabbing any locks. Locks themselves might call the latency tracer and cause at best a slow down. This patch adds get_monotonic_cycles that returns cycles from a reliable clock source in a monotonic fashion. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- include/linux/clocksource.h | 3 ++ kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 51 insertions(+) Index: linux-compile-i386.git/kernel/time/timekeeping.c =================================================================== --- linux-compile-i386.git.orig/kernel/time/timekeeping.c 2008-01-09 14:27:26.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-compile-i386.git/kernel/time/timekeeping.c 2008-01-09 14:34:40.000000000 -0500 @@ -103,6 +103,54 @@ static inline void __get_realtime_clock_ timespec_add_ns(ts, nsecs); } +cycle_t notrace get_monotonic_cycles(void) +{ + cycle_t cycle_now, cycle_delta, cycle_raw, cycle_last; + + do { + /* + * cycle_raw and cycle_last can change on + * another CPU and we need the delta calculation + * of cycle_now and cycle_last happen atomic, as well + * as the adding to cycle_raw. We don't need to grab + * any locks, we just keep trying until get all the + * calculations together in one state. + * + * In fact, we __cant__ grab any locks. This + * function is called from the latency_tracer which can + * be called anywhere. To grab any locks (including + * seq_locks) we risk putting ourselves into a deadlock. + */ + cycle_raw = clock->cycle_raw; + cycle_last = clock->cycle_last; + + /* read clocksource: */ + cycle_now = clocksource_read(clock); + + /* calculate the delta since the last update_wall_time: */ + cycle_delta = (cycle_now - cycle_last) & clock->mask; + + } while (cycle_raw != clock->cycle_raw || + cycle_last != clock->cycle_last); + + return cycle_raw + cycle_delta; +} + +unsigned long notrace cycles_to_usecs(cycle_t cycles) +{ + u64 ret = cyc2ns(clock, cycles); + + ret += NSEC_PER_USEC/2; /* For rounding in do_div() */ + do_div(ret, NSEC_PER_USEC); + + return ret; +} + +cycle_t notrace usecs_to_cycles(unsigned long usecs) +{ + return ns2cyc(clock, (u64)usecs * 1000); +} + /** * getnstimeofday - Returns the time of day in a timespec * @ts: pointer to the timespec to be set Index: linux-compile-i386.git/include/linux/clocksource.h =================================================================== --- linux-compile-i386.git.orig/include/linux/clocksource.h 2008-01-09 14:27:51.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-compile-i386.git/include/linux/clocksource.h 2008-01-09 14:29:44.000000000 -0500 @@ -273,6 +273,9 @@ extern int clocksource_register(struct c extern struct clocksource* clocksource_get_next(void); extern void clocksource_change_rating(struct clocksource *cs, int rating); extern void clocksource_resume(void); +extern cycle_t get_monotonic_cycles(void); +extern unsigned long cycles_to_usecs(cycle_t cycles); +extern cycle_t usecs_to_cycles(unsigned long usecs); /* used to initialize clock */ extern struct clocksource clocksource_jiffies; -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/