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Each event has a 27 bit timestamp delta that is used to hold the delta from the last event. If the time between events is greater than 2^27, then a timestamp is added that holds a 59 bit absolute timestamp. Untila389d86f7f("ring-buffer: Have nested events still record running time stamp"), if an interrupt interrupted an event in progress, all the events delta would be zero to not deal with the races that need to be handled. The commita389d86f7fchanged that to handle the races giving all events, even those that preempt other events, still have an accurate timestamp. To handle those races requires performing 64-bit cmpxchg on the timestamps. But doing 64-bit cmpxchg on 32-bit architectures is considered very slow. To try to deal with this the timestamp logic was broken into two and then three 32-bit cmpxchgs, with the thought that two (or three) 32-bit cmpxchgs are still faster than a single 64-bit cmpxchg on 32-bit architectures. Part of the problem with this is that I didn't have any 32-bit architectures to test on. After hitting several subtle bugs in this code, an effort was made to try and see if three 32-bit cmpxchgs are indeed faster than a single 64-bit. After a few people brushed off the dust of their old 32-bit machines, tests were done, and even though 32-bit cmpxchg was faster than a single 64-bit, it was in the order of 50% at best, not 300%. After some more refactoring of the code, all 4 64-bit cmpxchg were removed: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231211114420.36dde01b@gandalf.local.home https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231214222921.193037a7@gandalf.local.home https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231215081810.1f4f38fe@rorschach.local.home https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231218230712.3a76b081@gandalf.local.home/ With all the 64-bit cmpxchg removed, the complex 32-bit workaround can also be removed. The 32-bit and 64-bit logic is now exactly the same. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231213214632.15047c40@gandalf.local.home/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231219074303.28f9abda@gandalf.local.home Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.