Re: [PATCH 02/11] perf/x86: Add support for TSC as a perf event clock

[Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>]

On 09/02/2022 15:11, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 10:49:20AM +0200, Adrian Hunter wrote:
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
>> index 82858b697c05..150d2b70a41f 100644
>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
>> @@ -290,6 +290,14 @@ enum {
>>  	PERF_TXN_ABORT_SHIFT = 32,
>>  };
>>  
>> +/*
>> + * If supported, clockid value to select an architecture dependent hardware
>> + * clock. Note this means the unit of time is ticks not nanoseconds.
>> + * On x86, this is provided by the rdtsc instruction, and is not
>> + * paravirtualized.
>> + */
>> +#define CLOCK_PERF_HW_CLOCK		0x10000000
> 
> This steps on the clockid_t space; are we good with that?
> 
> At some point there was talk of dynamic clock ids, that would complicate
> things more than they are today.

There are 16 clock IDs at the moment and perf only supports a few of them.

If there were a conflict in the future, then an attribute bit would be needed
to differentiate the 2 cases: standard clock IDs vs non-standard "perf" clock IDs.
An alternative would be to add that attribute bit now.