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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"mingo@elte.hu" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm.com>,
	"ak@linux.intel.com" <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@gmail.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] perf: need to expose sched_clock to correlate user samples with kernel samples
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 10:23:49 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51586315.7080006@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1363291021.3100.144.camel@hornet>

On 3/14/13 1:57 PM, Pawel Moll wrote:
> Ok, how about the code below? I must say I have some doubts about the
> resolution, as there seem to be no generic way of figuring it out for
> the sched_clock (the arch/arm/kernel/sched_clock.c is actually
> calculating it, but than just prints it out and nothing more).
>
> And, to summarize, we went through 3 ideas:
>
> 1. ioctl() - http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1433933
> 2. syscall - http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1437057
> 3. POSIX clock - below
>
> John also suggested that maybe the perf could use CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW
> instead of local/sched_clock().

Any chance a decision can be reached in time for 3.10? Seems like the 
simplest option is the perf event based ioctl.

Converting/correlating perf_clock timestamps to time-of-day is a feature 
I have been trying to get into perf for over 2 years. This is a big 
piece needed for that goal -- along with the xtime tracepoints:
   https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/19/433

David


  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-31 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-16 10:13 [RFC] perf: need to expose sched_clock to correlate user samples with kernel samples Stephane Eranian
2012-10-16 17:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-10-18 19:33   ` Stephane Eranian
2012-11-10  2:04   ` John Stultz
2012-11-11 20:32     ` Stephane Eranian
2012-11-12 18:53       ` John Stultz
2012-11-12 20:54         ` Stephane Eranian
2012-11-12 22:39           ` John Stultz
2012-11-13 20:58     ` Steven Rostedt
2012-11-14 22:26       ` John Stultz
2012-11-14 23:30         ` Steven Rostedt
2013-02-01 14:18   ` Pawel Moll
2013-02-05 21:18     ` David Ahern
2013-02-05 22:13     ` Stephane Eranian
2013-02-05 22:28       ` John Stultz
2013-02-06  1:19         ` Steven Rostedt
2013-02-06 18:17           ` Pawel Moll
2013-02-13 20:00             ` Stephane Eranian
2013-02-14 10:33               ` Pawel Moll
2013-02-18 15:16                 ` Stephane Eranian
2013-02-18 18:59                   ` David Ahern
2013-02-18 20:35         ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-02-19 18:25           ` John Stultz
2013-02-19 19:55             ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-02-19 20:15               ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-02-19 20:35                 ` John Stultz
2013-02-19 21:50                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-02-19 22:20                     ` John Stultz
2013-02-20 10:06                       ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-02-20 10:29             ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-23  6:04               ` John Stultz
2013-02-25 14:10                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-03-14 15:34                   ` Stephane Eranian
2013-03-14 19:57                     ` Pawel Moll
2013-03-31 16:23                       ` David Ahern [this message]
2013-04-01 18:29                         ` John Stultz
2013-04-01 22:29                           ` David Ahern
2013-04-01 23:12                             ` John Stultz
2013-04-03  9:17                             ` Stephane Eranian
2013-04-03 13:55                               ` David Ahern
2013-04-03 14:00                                 ` Stephane Eranian
2013-04-03 14:14                                   ` David Ahern
2013-04-03 14:22                                     ` Stephane Eranian
2013-04-03 17:57                                       ` John Stultz
2013-04-04  8:12                                         ` Stephane Eranian
2013-04-04 22:26                                           ` John Stultz
2013-04-02  7:54                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-04-02 16:05                             ` Pawel Moll
2013-04-02 16:19                             ` John Stultz
2013-04-02 16:34                               ` Pawel Moll
2013-04-03 17:19                               ` Pawel Moll
2013-04-03 17:29                                 ` John Stultz
2013-04-03 17:35                                   ` Pawel Moll
2013-04-03 17:50                                     ` John Stultz
2013-04-04  7:37                                       ` Richard Cochran
2013-04-04 16:33                                         ` Pawel Moll
2013-04-04 16:29                                       ` Pawel Moll
2013-04-05 18:16                                         ` Pawel Moll
2013-04-06 11:05                                           ` Richard Cochran
2013-04-08 17:58                                             ` Pawel Moll
2013-04-08 19:05                                               ` John Stultz
2013-04-09  5:02                                                 ` Richard Cochran
2013-02-06 18:17       ` Pawel Moll
2013-06-26 16:49     ` David Ahern
2013-07-15 10:44       ` Pawel Moll

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