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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>
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@ -362,6 +362,26 @@ of ftrace. Here is a list of some of the key files:
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to correlate events across hypervisor/guest if
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to correlate events across hypervisor/guest if
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tb_offset is known.
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tb_offset is known.
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mono: This uses the fast monotonic clock (CLOCK_MONOTONIC)
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which is monotonic and is subject to NTP rate adjustments.
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mono_raw:
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This is the raw monotonic clock (CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW)
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which is montonic but is not subject to any rate adjustments
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and ticks at the same rate as the hardware clocksource.
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boot: This is the boot clock (CLOCK_BOOTTIME) and is based on the
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fast monotonic clock, but also accounts for time spent in
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suspend. Since the clock access is designed for use in
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tracing in the suspend path, some side effects are possible
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if clock is accessed after the suspend time is accounted before
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the fast mono clock is updated. In this case, the clock update
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appears to happen slightly sooner than it normally would have.
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Also on 32-bit systems, it's possible that the 64-bit boot offset
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sees a partial update. These effects are rare and post
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processing should be able to handle them. See comments in the
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ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() function for more information.
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To set a clock, simply echo the clock name into this file.
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To set a clock, simply echo the clock name into this file.
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echo global > trace_clock
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echo global > trace_clock
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