tracing: Add a counter clock for those that do not trust clocks

When debugging tight race conditions, it can be helpful to have a
synchronized tracing method. Although in most cases the global clock
provides this functionality, if timings is not the issue, it is more
comforting to know that the order of events really happened in a precise
order.

Instead of using a clock, add a "counter" that is simply an incrementing
atomic 64bit counter that orders the events as they are perceived to
happen.

The trace_clock_counter() is added from the attempt by Peter Zijlstra
trying to convert the trace_clock_global() to it. I took Peter's counter
code and made trace_clock_counter() instead, and added it to the choice
of clocks. Just echo counter > /debug/tracing/trace_clock to activate
it.

Requested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-By: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index b41907000bc..4b8df0dc935 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -435,6 +435,7 @@ static struct {
 } trace_clocks[] = {
 	{ trace_clock_local,	"local" },
 	{ trace_clock_global,	"global" },
+	{ trace_clock_counter,	"counter" },
 };
 
 int trace_clock_id;