Commit bf287607 authored by Alexey Brodkin's avatar Alexey Brodkin Committed by Daniel Lezcano

clocksource/drivers/arc_timer: Utilize generic sched_clock

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:
------------------------------>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':

         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: default avatarAlexey 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: default avatarVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
parent 2bbaf542
......@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ config ARC
select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW
select GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
select GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ if SMP
select GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
......
......@@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ config CLKSRC_MPS2
config ARC_TIMERS
bool "Support for 32-bit TIMERn counters in ARC Cores" if COMPILE_TEST
depends on GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
select TIMER_OF
help
These are legacy 32-bit TIMER0 and TIMER1 counters found on all ARC cores
......
......@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
#include <linux/cpu.h>
#include <linux/of.h>
#include <linux/of_irq.h>
#include <linux/sched_clock.h>
#include <soc/arc/timers.h>
#include <soc/arc/mcip.h>
......@@ -88,6 +89,11 @@ static u64 arc_read_gfrc(struct clocksource *cs)
return (((u64)h) << 32) | l;
}
static notrace u64 arc_gfrc_clock_read(void)
{
return arc_read_gfrc(NULL);
}
static struct clocksource arc_counter_gfrc = {
.name = "ARConnect GFRC",
.rating = 400,
......@@ -111,6 +117,8 @@ static int __init arc_cs_setup_gfrc(struct device_node *node)
if (ret)
return ret;
sched_clock_register(arc_gfrc_clock_read, 64, arc_timer_freq);
return clocksource_register_hz(&arc_counter_gfrc, arc_timer_freq);
}
TIMER_OF_DECLARE(arc_gfrc, "snps,archs-timer-gfrc", arc_cs_setup_gfrc);
......@@ -139,6 +147,11 @@ static u64 arc_read_rtc(struct clocksource *cs)
return (((u64)h) << 32) | l;
}
static notrace u64 arc_rtc_clock_read(void)
{
return arc_read_rtc(NULL);
}
static struct clocksource arc_counter_rtc = {
.name = "ARCv2 RTC",
.rating = 350,
......@@ -170,6 +183,8 @@ static int __init arc_cs_setup_rtc(struct device_node *node)
write_aux_reg(AUX_RTC_CTRL, 1);
sched_clock_register(arc_rtc_clock_read, 64, arc_timer_freq);
return clocksource_register_hz(&arc_counter_rtc, arc_timer_freq);
}
TIMER_OF_DECLARE(arc_rtc, "snps,archs-timer-rtc", arc_cs_setup_rtc);
......@@ -185,6 +200,11 @@ static u64 arc_read_timer1(struct clocksource *cs)
return (u64) read_aux_reg(ARC_REG_TIMER1_CNT);
}
static notrace u64 arc_timer1_clock_read(void)
{
return arc_read_timer1(NULL);
}
static struct clocksource arc_counter_timer1 = {
.name = "ARC Timer1",
.rating = 300,
......@@ -209,6 +229,8 @@ static int __init arc_cs_setup_timer1(struct device_node *node)
write_aux_reg(ARC_REG_TIMER1_CNT, 0);
write_aux_reg(ARC_REG_TIMER1_CTRL, TIMER_CTRL_NH);
sched_clock_register(arc_timer1_clock_read, 32, arc_timer_freq);
return clocksource_register_hz(&arc_counter_timer1, arc_timer_freq);
}
......
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