// Copyright 2023 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. // Trace time and clock. package runtime import ( "internal/goarch" _ "unsafe" ) // Timestamps in trace are produced through either nanotime or cputicks // and divided by traceTimeDiv. nanotime is used everywhere except on // platforms where osHasLowResClock is true, because the system clock // isn't granular enough to get useful information out of a trace in // many cases. // // This makes absolute values of timestamp diffs smaller, and so they are // encoded in fewer bytes. // // The target resolution in all cases is 64 nanoseconds. // This is based on the fact that fundamentally the execution tracer won't emit // events more frequently than roughly every 200 ns or so, because that's roughly // how long it takes to call through the scheduler. // We could be more aggressive and bump this up to 128 ns while still getting // useful data, but the extra bit doesn't save us that much and the headroom is // nice to have. // // Hitting this target resolution is easy in the nanotime case: just pick a // division of 64. In the cputicks case it's a bit more complex. // // For x86, on a 3 GHz machine, we'd want to divide by 3*64 to hit our target. // To keep the division operation efficient, we round that up to 4*64, or 256. // Given what cputicks represents, we use this on all other platforms except // for PowerPC. // The suggested increment frequency for PowerPC's time base register is // 512 MHz according to Power ISA v2.07 section 6.2, so we use 32 on ppc64 // and ppc64le. const traceTimeDiv = (1-osHasLowResClockInt)*64 + osHasLowResClockInt*(256-224*(goarch.IsPpc64|goarch.IsPpc64le)) // traceTime represents a timestamp for the trace. type traceTime uint64 // traceClockNow returns a monotonic timestamp. The clock this function gets // the timestamp from is specific to tracing, and shouldn't be mixed with other // clock sources. // // nosplit because it's called from exitsyscall and various trace writing functions, // which are nosplit. // // traceClockNow is called by golang.org/x/exp/trace using linkname. // //go:linkname traceClockNow //go:nosplit func traceClockNow() traceTime { if osHasLowResClock { return traceTime(cputicks() / traceTimeDiv) } return traceTime(nanotime() / traceTimeDiv) } // traceClockUnitsPerSecond estimates the number of trace clock units per // second that elapse. func traceClockUnitsPerSecond() uint64 { if osHasLowResClock { // We're using cputicks as our clock, so we need a real estimate. return uint64(ticksPerSecond() / traceTimeDiv) } // Our clock is nanotime, so it's just the constant time division. // (trace clock units / nanoseconds) * (1e9 nanoseconds / 1 second) return uint64(1.0 / float64(traceTimeDiv) * 1e9) } // traceFrequency writes a batch with a single EvFrequency event. // // freq is the number of trace clock units per second. func traceFrequency(gen uintptr) { w := unsafeTraceWriter(gen, nil) // Ensure we have a place to write to. w, _ = w.ensure(1 + traceBytesPerNumber /* traceEvFrequency + frequency */) // Write out the string. w.byte(byte(traceEvFrequency)) w.varint(traceClockUnitsPerSecond()) // Immediately flush the buffer. systemstack(func() { lock(&trace.lock) traceBufFlush(w.traceBuf, gen) unlock(&trace.lock) }) }