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2009-08-21time: Introduce CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSEjohn stultz
After talking with some application writers who want very fast, but not fine-grained timestamps, I decided to try to implement new clock_ids to clock_gettime(): CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE and CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE which returns the time at the last tick. This is very fast as we don't have to access any hardware (which can be very painful if you're using something like the acpi_pm clocksource), and we can even use the vdso clock_gettime() method to avoid the syscall. The only trade off is you only get low-res tick grained time resolution. This isn't a new idea, I know Ingo has a patch in the -rt tree that made the vsyscall gettimeofday() return coarse grained time when the vsyscall64 sysctrl was set to 2. However this affects all applications on a system. With this method, applications can choose the proper speed/granularity trade-off for themselves. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: nikolag@ca.ibm.com Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: arjan@infradead.org Cc: jonathan@jonmasters.org LKML-Reference: <1250734414.6897.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-04-30x86: gettimeofday() vDSO: fix segfault when tv == NULLJohn Wright
According to the gettimeofday(2) manual: If either tv or tz is NULL, the corresponding structure is not set or returned. Since it is legal to give NULL as the tv argument, the code should make sure tv is not NULL before trying to dereference it. This issue manifests itself on x86_64 when vdso=0 is not on the kernel command-line and libc uses the vDSO for gettimeofday() (e.g. glibc >= 2.7). A simple reproducer: #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/time.h> int main(void) { struct timezone tz; gettimeofday(NULL, &tz); return 0; } See http://bugs.debian.org/466491 for more details. [ Impact: fix gettimeofday(NULL, &tz) segfault ] Signed-off-by: John Wright <john.wright@hp.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: John Wright <john.wright@hp.com> LKML-Reference: <1241037121-14805-1-git-send-email-john.wright@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12trace: rename unlikely profiler to branch profilerSteven Rostedt
Impact: name change of unlikely tracer and profiler Ingo Molnar suggested changing the config from UNLIKELY_PROFILE to BRANCH_PROFILING. I never did like the "unlikely" name so I went one step farther, and renamed all the unlikely configurations to a "BRANCH" variant. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12tracing: branch tracer, fix vdso crashIngo Molnar
Impact: fix bootup crash the branch tracer missed arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c from disabling tracing, which caused such bootup crashes: [ 201.840097] init[1]: segfault at 7fffed3fe7c0 ip 00007fffed3fea2e sp 000077 also clean up the ugly ifdefs in arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c by creating DISABLE_UNLIKELY_PROFILE facility for code to turn off instrumentation on a per file basis. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-16Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/ftraceIngo Molnar
2008-05-23x86: add notrace annotations to vsyscall.Steven Rostedt
Add the notrace annotations to the vsyscall functions - there we are not in kernel context yet, so the tracer function cannot (and must not) be called. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23x86: use explicit copy in vdso_gettimeofday()Andi Kleen
Jeremy's gcc 3.4 seems to be unable to inline a 8 byte memcpy. But the vdso doesn't support external references. Copy the structure members of struct timezone explicitely instead. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: remove duplicate includesLucas Woods
Signed-off-by: Lucas Woods <woodzy@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-11x86_64: move vdsoThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>