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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-04-21 10:46:39 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-04-21 10:46:54 +0200
commit8ecee4620e76aae418bfa0e8cc830e92cb559bbb (patch)
tree49a36784c0a26c8494a37087e37502101013b35d /include/linux/trace_clock.h
parent6424fb38667fffbbb1b90be0ffd9a0c540db6a4b (diff)
parenta939b96cccdb65df80a52447ec8e4a6d79c56dbb (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/mm
Merge reason: refresh the topic: there's been 290 non-merges commits upstream to arch/x86 alone. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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+#ifndef _LINUX_TRACE_CLOCK_H
+#define _LINUX_TRACE_CLOCK_H
+
+/*
+ * 3 trace clock variants, with differing scalability/precision
+ * tradeoffs:
+ *
+ * - local: CPU-local trace clock
+ * - medium: scalable global clock with some jitter
+ * - global: globally monotonic, serialized clock
+ */
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+extern u64 notrace trace_clock_local(void);
+extern u64 notrace trace_clock(void);
+extern u64 notrace trace_clock_global(void);
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_TRACE_CLOCK_H */