it is in units of nanoseconds; appending '.usecs' to a
common_timestamp field changes the units to microseconds.
-These features are decribed in more detail in the following sections.
+A note on inter-event timestamps: If common_timestamp is used in a
+histogram, the trace buffer is automatically switched over to using
+absolute timestamps and the "global" trace clock, in order to avoid
+bogus timestamp differences with other clocks that aren't coherent
+across CPUs. This can be overridden by specifying one of the other
+trace clocks instead, using the "clock=XXX" hist trigger attribute,
+where XXX is any of the clocks listed in the tracing/trace_clock
+pseudo-file.
+
+These features are described in more detail in the following sections.
2.2.1 Histogram Variables
-------------------------
char *vals_str;
char *sort_key_str;
char *name;
+ char *clock;
bool pause;
bool cont;
bool clear;
kfree(attrs->sort_key_str);
kfree(attrs->keys_str);
kfree(attrs->vals_str);
+ kfree(attrs->clock);
kfree(attrs);
}
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
}
+ } else if (strncmp(str, "clock=", strlen("clock=")) == 0) {
+ strsep(&str, "=");
+ if (!str) {
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ str = strstrip(str);
+ attrs->clock = kstrdup(str, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!attrs->clock) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto out;
+ }
} else if (strncmp(str, "size=", strlen("size=")) == 0) {
int map_bits = parse_map_size(str);
goto free;
}
+ if (!attrs->clock) {
+ attrs->clock = kstrdup("global", GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!attrs->clock) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto free;
+ }
+ }
+
return attrs;
free:
destroy_hist_trigger_attrs(attrs);
seq_puts(m, ".descending");
}
seq_printf(m, ":size=%u", (1 << hist_data->map->map_bits));
+ if (hist_data->enable_timestamps)
+ seq_printf(m, ":clock=%s", hist_data->attrs->clock);
print_actions_spec(m, hist_data);
data->paused = true;
if (named_data) {
- destroy_hist_data(data->private_data);
data->private_data = named_data->private_data;
set_named_trigger_data(data, named_data);
data->ops = &event_hist_trigger_named_ops;
goto out;
}
- ret++;
+ if (hist_data->enable_timestamps) {
+ char *clock = hist_data->attrs->clock;
+
+ ret = tracing_set_clock(file->tr, hist_data->attrs->clock);
+ if (ret) {
+ hist_err("Couldn't set trace_clock: ", clock);
+ goto out;
+ }
- if (hist_data->enable_timestamps)
tracing_set_time_stamp_abs(file->tr, true);
+ }
+
+ if (named_data)
+ destroy_hist_data(hist_data);
+
+ ret++;
out:
return ret;
}