It turned out we used to use default implementation of sched_clock()
from kernel/sched/clock.c which was as precise as 1/HZ, i.e.
by default we had 10 msec granularity of time measurement.
Now given ARC built-in timers are clocked with the same frequency as
CPU cores we may get much higher precision of time tracking.
Thus we switch to generic sched_clock which really reads ARC hardware
counters.
This is especially helpful for measuring short events.
That's what we used to have:
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$ perf stat /bin/sh -c /root/lmbench-master/bin/arc/hello > /dev/null
Performance counter stats for '/bin/sh -c /root/lmbench-master/bin/arc/hello':
10.000000 task-clock (msec) # 2.832 CPUs utilized
1 context-switches # 0.100 K/sec
1 cpu-migrations # 0.100 K/sec
63 page-faults # 0.006 M/sec
3049480 cycles # 0.305 GHz
1091259 instructions # 0.36 insn per cycle
256828 branches # 25.683 M/sec
27026 branch-misses # 10.52% of all branches
0.003530687 seconds time elapsed
0.000000000 seconds user
0.010000000 seconds sys
------------------------------>8------------------------
And now we'll see:
------------------------------>8------------------------
$ perf stat /bin/sh -c /root/lmbench-master/bin/arc/hello > /dev/null
Performance counter stats for '/bin/sh -c /root/lmbench-master/bin/arc/hello':
3.004322 task-clock (msec) # 0.865 CPUs utilized
1 context-switches # 0.333 K/sec
1 cpu-migrations # 0.333 K/sec
63 page-faults # 0.021 M/sec
2986734 cycles # 0.994 GHz
1087466 instructions # 0.36 insn per cycle
255209 branches # 84.947 M/sec
26002 branch-misses # 10.19% of all branches
0.003474829 seconds time elapsed
0.003519000 seconds user
0.000000000 seconds sys
------------------------------>8------------------------
Note how much more meaningful is the second output - time spent for
execution pretty much matches number of cycles spent (we're runnign
@ 1GHz here).
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
This came to light in some internal discussions and it is nice to have
this documented rather than digging up the PRM (Prog Ref Manual) again.
Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev <Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com>
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
TIMER0 interrupt ACK is different for ARC700 and HS3x cores.
This came to light in some internal discussions and it is nice to have this
documented rather than digging up the PRM (Programmers Reference Manual).
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519241491-12570-1-git-send-email-vgupta@synopsys.com
The CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE macro is used widely for the timers to declare the
clocksource at early stage. However, this macro is also used to initialize
the clockevent if any, or the clockevent only.
It was originally suggested to declare another macro to initialize a
clockevent, so in order to separate the two entities even they belong to the
same IP. This was not accepted because of the impact on the DT where splitting
a clocksource/clockevent definition does not make sense as it is a Linux
concept not a hardware description.
On the other side, the clocksource has not interrupt declared while the
clockevent has, so it is easy from the driver to know if the description is
for a clockevent or a clocksource, IOW it could be implemented at the driver
level.
So instead of dealing with a named clocksource macro, let's use a more generic
one: TIMER_OF_DECLARE.
The patch has not functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Acked-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Pull timer type cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
"This series does a tree wide cleanup of types related to
timers/timekeeping.
- Get rid of cycles_t and use a plain u64. The type is not really
helpful and caused more confusion than clarity
- Get rid of the ktime union. The union has become useless as we use
the scalar nanoseconds storage unconditionally now. The 32bit
timespec alike storage got removed due to the Y2038 limitations
some time ago.
That leaves the odd union access around for no reason. Clean it up.
Both changes have been done with coccinelle and a small amount of
manual mopping up"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
ktime: Get rid of ktime_equal()
ktime: Cleanup ktime_set() usage
ktime: Get rid of the union
clocksource: Use a plain u64 instead of cycle_t
There is no point in having an extra type for extra confusion. u64 is
unambiguous.
Conversion was done with the following coccinelle script:
@rem@
@@
-typedef u64 cycle_t;
@fix@
typedef cycle_t;
@@
-cycle_t
+u64
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
When the state names got added a script was used to add the extra argument
to the calls. The script basically converted the state constant to a
string, but the cleanup to convert these strings into meaningful ones did
not happen.
Replace all the useless strings with 'subsys/xxx/yyy:state' strings which
are used in all the other places already.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161221192112.085444152@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This adds support for
- CONFIG_ARC_TIMERS : legacy 32-bit TIMER0 and TIMER1 which count UP
from @CNT to @LIMIT, before optionally triggering an interrupt.
These are programmed using ARC auxiliary register interface.
These are present in all ARC cores (ARC700 and ARC HS38)
TIMER0 serves as clockevent for all ARC linux builds.
TIMER1 is used for clocksource in arc700 builds.
- CONFIG_ARC_TIMERS_64BIT: 64-bit counters, RTC and GFRC found in
ARC HS38 cores. These are independnet IP blocks with different
programming model respectively.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161111231132.GA4186@mai
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
