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| author | Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> | 2016-11-28 14:35:24 -0800 |
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| committer | Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> | 2016-11-28 18:46:58 -0800 |
| commit | 7c04e2fcb076dd28760f2eca2eaf48dd37e52a40 (patch) | |
| tree | fe5cee80fd0167883cb1504c0ebb147b03395aca | |
| parent | 5fe7d45f445841c6261e8695428a532db0e0377c (diff) | |
UPSTREAM: trace: Update documentation for mono, mono_raw and boot clock
Documentation was missing for mono and mono_raw, add them and also for
the boot clock introduced in this series.
Bug: b/33184060
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt index cf2f9e9dfe4d..fa16fb2302a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt @@ -357,6 +357,26 @@ of ftrace. Here is a list of some of the key files: to correlate events across hypervisor/guest if tb_offset is known. + mono: This uses the fast monotonic clock (CLOCK_MONOTONIC) + which is monotonic and is subject to NTP rate adjustments. + + mono_raw: + This is the raw monotonic clock (CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW) + which is montonic but is not subject to any rate adjustments + and ticks at the same rate as the hardware clocksource. + + boot: This is the boot clock (CLOCK_BOOTTIME) and is based on the + fast monotonic clock, but also accounts for time spent in + suspend. Since the clock access is designed for use in + tracing in the suspend path, some side effects are possible + if clock is accessed after the suspend time is accounted before + the fast mono clock is updated. In this case, the clock update + appears to happen slightly sooner than it normally would have. + Also on 32-bit systems, its possible that the 64-bit boot offset + sees a partial update. These effects are rare and post + processing should be able to handle them. See comments on + ktime_get_boot_fast_ns function for more information. + To set a clock, simply echo the clock name into this file. echo global > trace_clock |