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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/timerlat-tracer.rst b/Documentation/trace/timerlat-tracer.rst index db17df312bc8..53a56823e903 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/timerlat-tracer.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/timerlat-tracer.rst @@ -180,3 +180,81 @@ dummy_load_1ms_pd_init, which had the following code (on purpose):: return 0; } + +User-space interface +--------------------------- + +Timerlat allows user-space threads to use timerlat infra-structure to +measure scheduling latency. This interface is accessible via a per-CPU +file descriptor inside $tracing_dir/osnoise/per_cpu/cpu$ID/timerlat_fd. + +This interface is accessible under the following conditions: + + - timerlat tracer is enable + - osnoise workload option is set to NO_OSNOISE_WORKLOAD + - The user-space thread is affined to a single processor + - The thread opens the file associated with its single processor + - Only one thread can access the file at a time + +The open() syscall will fail if any of these conditions are not met. +After opening the file descriptor, the user space can read from it. + +The read() system call will run a timerlat code that will arm the +timer in the future and wait for it as the regular kernel thread does. + +When the timer IRQ fires, the timerlat IRQ will execute, report the +IRQ latency and wake up the thread waiting in the read. The thread will be +scheduled and report the thread latency via tracer - as for the kernel +thread. + +The difference from the in-kernel timerlat is that, instead of re-arming +the timer, timerlat will return to the read() system call. At this point, +the user can run any code. + +If the application rereads the file timerlat file descriptor, the tracer +will report the return from user-space latency, which is the total +latency. If this is the end of the work, it can be interpreted as the +response time for the request. + +After reporting the total latency, timerlat will restart the cycle, arm +a timer, and go to sleep for the following activation. + +If at any time one of the conditions is broken, e.g., the thread migrates +while in user space, or the timerlat tracer is disabled, the SIG_KILL +signal will be sent to the user-space thread. + +Here is an basic example of user-space code for timerlat:: + + int main(void) + { + char buffer[1024]; + int timerlat_fd; + int retval; + long cpu = 0; /* place in CPU 0 */ + cpu_set_t set; + + CPU_ZERO(&set); + CPU_SET(cpu, &set); + + if (sched_setaffinity(gettid(), sizeof(set), &set) == -1) + return 1; + + snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), + "/sys/kernel/tracing/osnoise/per_cpu/cpu%ld/timerlat_fd", + cpu); + + timerlat_fd = open(buffer, O_RDONLY); + if (timerlat_fd < 0) { + printf("error opening %s: %s\n", buffer, strerror(errno)); + exit(1); + } + + for (;;) { + retval = read(timerlat_fd, buffer, 1024); + if (retval < 0) + break; + } + + close(timerlat_fd); + exit(0); + } |