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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-04-06 01:41:22 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-04-06 01:41:22 +0200
commit9efe21cb82b5dbe3b0b2ae4de4eccc64ecb94e95 (patch)
tree7ff8833745d2f268f897f6fa4a27263b4a572245 /include/linux/trace_clock.h
parentde18836e447c2dc30120c0919b8db8ddc0401cc4 (diff)
parent0221c81b1b8eb0cbb6b30a0ced52ead32d2b4e4c (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into irq/threaded
Conflicts: include/linux/irq.h kernel/irq/handle.c
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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 */