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From: tip-bot for Joel Fernandes <tipbot@zytor.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	richardcochran@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com,
	joelaf@google.com, prarit@redhat.com, mingo@kernel.org,
	john.stultz@linaro.org
Subject: [tip:timers/core] trace: Update documentation for mono, mono_raw and boot clock
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 09:13:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-2924ecd441f3c12da59b297daade265f49d0831b@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1480372524-15181-8-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org>

Commit-ID:  2924ecd441f3c12da59b297daade265f49d0831b
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/2924ecd441f3c12da59b297daade265f49d0831b
Author:     Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 14:35:24 -0800
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CommitDate: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 18:03:00 +0100

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.

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480372524-15181-8-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

---
 Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
index 185c39f..5596e2d 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
@@ -362,6 +362,26 @@ 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, it's 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 in the
+		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

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-29 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-28 22:35 [GIT PULL][PATCH 0/7] Timekeeping changes for 4.10 (take 2) John Stultz
2016-11-28 22:35 ` [PATCH 1/7] selftests/timers: Fix spelling mistake "Asyncrhonous" -> "Asynchronous" John Stultz
2016-11-29 17:10   ` [tip:timers/core] " tip-bot for Colin Ian King
2016-11-28 22:35 ` [PATCH 2/7] timekeeping: Ignore the bogus sleep time if pm_trace is enabled John Stultz
2016-11-29  7:19   ` Ingo Molnar
2016-11-29  9:38     ` Chen Yu
2016-11-29 17:10   ` [tip:timers/core] " tip-bot for Chen Yu
2016-11-28 22:35 ` [PATCH 3/7] timekeeping: clocksource_cyc2ns: Document intended range limitation John Stultz
2016-11-29 17:11   ` [tip:timers/core] timekeeping/clocksource_cyc2ns: " tip-bot for Chris Metcalf
2016-11-28 22:35 ` [PATCH 4/7] time: alarmtimer: Add the tracepoints for alarmtimer John Stultz
2016-11-29  7:23   ` Ingo Molnar
2016-11-29  8:23     ` Baolin Wang
2016-11-29  9:12       ` Ingo Molnar
2016-11-29 11:52         ` Baolin Wang
2016-11-29 12:06   ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-11-30 11:43     ` Baolin Wang
2016-12-01  2:34     ` Baolin Wang
2016-12-01 13:52   ` [tip:timers/core] alarmtimer: Add tracepoints for alarm timers tip-bot for Baolin Wang
2016-11-28 22:35 ` [PATCH 5/7] timekeeping: Add a fast and NMI safe boot clock John Stultz
2016-11-29 17:11   ` [tip:timers/core] " tip-bot for Joel Fernandes
2016-11-28 22:35 ` [PATCH 6/7] trace: Add an option for boot clock as trace clock John Stultz
2016-11-28 23:05   ` Steven Rostedt
2016-11-29 17:12   ` [tip:timers/core] " tip-bot for Joel Fernandes
2016-11-28 22:35 ` [PATCH 7/7] trace: Update documentation for mono, mono_raw and boot clock John Stultz
2016-11-28 23:07   ` Steven Rostedt
2016-11-29  7:26   ` Ingo Molnar
2016-11-29 16:10     ` Joel Fernandes
2016-11-29 16:11       ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-11-29 17:13   ` tip-bot for Joel Fernandes [this message]

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