linux/kernel/trace/trace_clock.c

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/*
* tracing clocks
*
* Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
*
* Implements 3 trace clock variants, with differing scalability/precision
* tradeoffs:
*
* - local: CPU-local trace clock
* - medium: scalable global clock with some jitter
* - global: globally monotonic, serialized clock
*
* Tracer plugins will chose a default from these clocks.
*/
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/irqflags.h>
#include <linux/hardirq.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/percpu.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/ktime.h>
#include <linux/trace_clock.h>
tracing: do not disable interrupts for trace_clock_local Disabling interrupts in trace_clock_local takes quite a performance hit to the recording of traces. Using perf top we see: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PerfTop: 244 irqs/sec kernel:100.0% [1000Hz cpu-clock-msecs], (all, 4 CPUs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ samples pcnt kernel function _______ _____ _______________ 2842.00 - 40.4% : trace_clock_local 1043.00 - 14.8% : rb_reserve_next_event 784.00 - 11.1% : ring_buffer_lock_reserve 600.00 - 8.5% : __rb_reserve_next 579.00 - 8.2% : rb_end_commit 440.00 - 6.3% : ring_buffer_unlock_commit 290.00 - 4.1% : ring_buffer_producer_thread [ring_buffer_benchmark] 155.00 - 2.2% : debug_smp_processor_id 117.00 - 1.7% : trace_recursive_unlock 103.00 - 1.5% : ring_buffer_event_data 28.00 - 0.4% : do_gettimeofday 22.00 - 0.3% : _spin_unlock_irq 14.00 - 0.2% : native_read_tsc 11.00 - 0.2% : getnstimeofday Where trace_clock_local is 40% of the tracing, and the time for recording a trace according to ring_buffer_benchmark is 210ns. After converting the interrupts to preemption disabling we have from perf top: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PerfTop: 1084 irqs/sec kernel:99.9% [1000Hz cpu-clock-msecs], (all, 4 CPUs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ samples pcnt kernel function _______ _____ _______________ 1277.00 - 16.8% : native_read_tsc 1148.00 - 15.1% : rb_reserve_next_event 896.00 - 11.8% : ring_buffer_lock_reserve 688.00 - 9.1% : __rb_reserve_next 664.00 - 8.8% : rb_end_commit 563.00 - 7.4% : ring_buffer_unlock_commit 508.00 - 6.7% : _spin_unlock_irq 365.00 - 4.8% : debug_smp_processor_id 321.00 - 4.2% : trace_clock_local 303.00 - 4.0% : ring_buffer_producer_thread [ring_buffer_benchmark] 273.00 - 3.6% : native_sched_clock 122.00 - 1.6% : trace_recursive_unlock 113.00 - 1.5% : sched_clock 101.00 - 1.3% : ring_buffer_event_data 53.00 - 0.7% : tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick Where trace_clock_local drops from 40% to only taking 4% of the total time. The trace time also goes from 210ns down to 179ns (31ns). I talked with Peter Zijlstra about the impact that sched_clock may have without having interrupts disabled, and he told me that if a timer interrupt comes in, sched_clock may report a wrong time. Balancing a seldom incorrect timestamp with a 15% performance boost, I'll take the performance boost. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-12 01:36:03 +01:00
#include "trace.h"
/*
* trace_clock_local(): the simplest and least coherent tracing clock.
*
* Useful for tracing that does not cross to other CPUs nor
* does it go through idle events.
*/
u64 notrace trace_clock_local(void)
{
u64 clock;
/*
* sched_clock() is an architecture implemented, fast, scalable,
* lockless clock. It is not guaranteed to be coherent across
* CPUs, nor across CPU idle events.
*/
tracing: Remove ftrace_preempt_disable/enable The ftrace_preempt_disable/enable functions were to address a recursive race caused by the function tracer. The function tracer traces all functions which makes it easily susceptible to recursion. One area was preempt_enable(). This would call the scheduler and the schedulre would call the function tracer and loop. (So was it thought). The ftrace_preempt_disable/enable was made to protect against recursion inside the scheduler by storing the NEED_RESCHED flag. If it was set before the ftrace_preempt_disable() it would not call schedule on ftrace_preempt_enable(), thinking that if it was set before then it would have already scheduled unless it was already in the scheduler. This worked fine except in the case of SMP, where another task would set the NEED_RESCHED flag for a task on another CPU, and then kick off an IPI to trigger it. This could cause the NEED_RESCHED to be saved at ftrace_preempt_disable() but the IPI to arrive in the the preempt disabled section. The ftrace_preempt_enable() would not call the scheduler because the flag was already set before entring the section. This bug would cause a missed preemption check and cause lower latencies. Investigating further, I found that the recusion caused by the function tracer was not due to schedule(), but due to preempt_schedule(). Now that preempt_schedule is completely annotated with notrace, the recusion no longer is an issue. Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-03 15:36:50 +02:00
preempt_disable_notrace();
clock = sched_clock();
tracing: Remove ftrace_preempt_disable/enable The ftrace_preempt_disable/enable functions were to address a recursive race caused by the function tracer. The function tracer traces all functions which makes it easily susceptible to recursion. One area was preempt_enable(). This would call the scheduler and the schedulre would call the function tracer and loop. (So was it thought). The ftrace_preempt_disable/enable was made to protect against recursion inside the scheduler by storing the NEED_RESCHED flag. If it was set before the ftrace_preempt_disable() it would not call schedule on ftrace_preempt_enable(), thinking that if it was set before then it would have already scheduled unless it was already in the scheduler. This worked fine except in the case of SMP, where another task would set the NEED_RESCHED flag for a task on another CPU, and then kick off an IPI to trigger it. This could cause the NEED_RESCHED to be saved at ftrace_preempt_disable() but the IPI to arrive in the the preempt disabled section. The ftrace_preempt_enable() would not call the scheduler because the flag was already set before entring the section. This bug would cause a missed preemption check and cause lower latencies. Investigating further, I found that the recusion caused by the function tracer was not due to schedule(), but due to preempt_schedule(). Now that preempt_schedule is completely annotated with notrace, the recusion no longer is an issue. Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-03 15:36:50 +02:00
preempt_enable_notrace();
return clock;
}
/*
* trace_clock(): 'between' trace clock. Not completely serialized,
* but not completely incorrect when crossing CPUs either.
*
* This is based on cpu_clock(), which will allow at most ~1 jiffy of
* jitter between CPUs. So it's a pretty scalable clock, but there
* can be offsets in the trace data.
*/
u64 notrace trace_clock(void)
{
return local_clock();
}
/*
* trace_clock_global(): special globally coherent trace clock
*
* It has higher overhead than the other trace clocks but is still
* an order of magnitude faster than GTOD derived hardware clocks.
*
* Used by plugins that need globally coherent timestamps.
*/
/* keep prev_time and lock in the same cacheline. */
static struct {
u64 prev_time;
arch_spinlock_t lock;
} trace_clock_struct ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp =
{
.lock = (arch_spinlock_t)__ARCH_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED,
};
u64 notrace trace_clock_global(void)
{
unsigned long flags;
int this_cpu;
u64 now;
local_irq_save(flags);
this_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
now = cpu_clock(this_cpu);
/*
* If in an NMI context then dont risk lockups and return the
* cpu_clock() time:
*/
if (unlikely(in_nmi()))
goto out;
arch_spin_lock(&trace_clock_struct.lock);
/*
* TODO: if this happens often then maybe we should reset
* my_scd->clock to prev_time+1, to make sure
* we start ticking with the local clock from now on?
*/
if ((s64)(now - trace_clock_struct.prev_time) < 0)
now = trace_clock_struct.prev_time + 1;
trace_clock_struct.prev_time = now;
arch_spin_unlock(&trace_clock_struct.lock);
out:
local_irq_restore(flags);
return now;
}
static atomic64_t trace_counter;
/*
* trace_clock_counter(): simply an atomic counter.
* Use the trace_counter "counter" for cases where you do not care
* about timings, but are interested in strict ordering.
*/
u64 notrace trace_clock_counter(void)
{
return atomic64_add_return(1, &trace_counter);
}