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authorMikael Pettersson <[email protected]>2010-08-26 00:25:23 +0200
committerBjörn Gustavsson <[email protected]>2010-08-27 11:59:42 +0200
commit789f9502eeb097d558c23750c534b807d965541d (patch)
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parent980773b6f40133feff45b0ad9e811174b85034d9 (diff)
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robustify hipe_bifs:get_hrvtime/0
The HiPE runtime system has a hipe_bifs:get_hrvtime/0 BIF which mimics the non-standard gethrvtime() C API. It's possible to configure the implementation to use the "perfctr" Linux kernel extension for performance-monitoring counters, in which case get_hrvtime has very high precision and low overhead. Otherwise it uses the same code as runtime(statistics). This patch changes the get_hrvtime implementation to do a runtime check to see if perfctr is available, and to use the fallback code rather than returning a dummy value if perfctr is unavailable, which is common. The current dummy value return is a bug. It messes up the API and either breaks callers (they get badarg when trying to compute on the value) or forces them to implement checks and fallbacks themselves. Timing code in HiPE's test suites and benchmarks is known to be affected.
Diffstat (limited to 'erts')
-rw-r--r--erts/emulator/hipe/hipe_bif1.c49
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/erts/emulator/hipe/hipe_bif1.c b/erts/emulator/hipe/hipe_bif1.c
index 5188950e17..8f43811537 100644
--- a/erts/emulator/hipe/hipe_bif1.c
+++ b/erts/emulator/hipe/hipe_bif1.c
@@ -876,22 +876,44 @@ BIF_RETTYPE hipe_bifs_misc_timer_clear_0(BIF_ALIST_0)
* + The fallback, which is the same as {X,_} = runtime(statistics).
*/
+static double fallback_get_hrvtime(void)
+{
+ unsigned long ms_user;
+
+ elapsed_time_both(&ms_user, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+ return (double)ms_user;
+}
+
#if USE_PERFCTR
#include "hipe_perfctr.h"
-static int hrvtime_is_open;
-#define hrvtime_is_started() hrvtime_is_open
+static int hrvtime_started; /* 0: closed, +1: perfctr, -1: fallback */
+#define hrvtime_is_started() (hrvtime_started != 0)
static void start_hrvtime(void)
{
if (hipe_perfctr_hrvtime_open() >= 0)
- hrvtime_is_open = 1;
+ hrvtime_started = 1;
+ else
+ hrvtime_started = -1;
}
-#define get_hrvtime() hipe_perfctr_hrvtime_get()
-#define stop_hrvtime() hipe_perfctr_hrvtime_close()
+static void stop_hrvtime(void)
+{
+ if (hrvtime_started > 0)
+ hipe_perfctr_hrvtime_close();
+ hrvtime_started = 0;
+}
-#else
+static double get_hrvtime(void)
+{
+ if (hrvtime_started > 0)
+ return hipe_perfctr_hrvtime_get();
+ else
+ return fallback_get_hrvtime();
+}
+
+#else /* !USE_PERFCTR */
/*
* Fallback, if nothing better exists.
@@ -902,15 +924,9 @@ static void start_hrvtime(void)
#define hrvtime_is_started() 1
#define start_hrvtime() do{}while(0)
#define stop_hrvtime() do{}while(0)
+#define get_hrvtime() fallback_get_hrvtime()
-static double get_hrvtime(void)
-{
- unsigned long ms_user;
- elapsed_time_both(&ms_user, NULL, NULL, NULL);
- return (double)ms_user;
-}
-
-#endif /* hrvtime support */
+#endif /* !USE_PERFCTR */
BIF_RETTYPE hipe_bifs_get_hrvtime_0(BIF_ALIST_0)
{
@@ -918,11 +934,8 @@ BIF_RETTYPE hipe_bifs_get_hrvtime_0(BIF_ALIST_0)
Eterm res;
FloatDef f;
- if (!hrvtime_is_started()) {
+ if (!hrvtime_is_started())
start_hrvtime();
- if (!hrvtime_is_started())
- BIF_RET(NIL); /* arity 0 BIFs may not fail */
- }
f.fd = get_hrvtime();
hp = HAlloc(BIF_P, FLOAT_SIZE_OBJECT);
res = make_float(hp);