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authorFelix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>2009-06-10 17:07:47 -0500
committerFelix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>2009-06-10 17:07:47 -0500
commit4e73e0eb633f8a1b5cbf20e7f42c6dbfec1d1ca7 (patch)
tree0cea46e43f0625244c3d06a71d6559e5ec5419ca /include/linux/trace_clock.h
parent4156e735d3abde8e9243b5d22f7999dd3fffab2e (diff)
parent07a2039b8eb0af4ff464efd3dfd95de5c02648c6 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
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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 */