lib/igt_perf: Request CLOCK_MONOTONIC when opening events

Ask for CLOCK_MONOTONIC which is more stable than the default perf clock.

(Ability to select a clock has been available since kernel version 4.1.)

The change should not have any significant impact on the IGT as whole
apart from maybe improving the occasional jitter in tests/tools which use
nanosleep(2) and use time slept together with perf reported time delta
either in direct or indirect calculations.

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lib/igt_perf.c b/lib/igt_perf.c
index 418c1c18..b743859f 100644
--- a/lib/igt_perf.c
+++ b/lib/igt_perf.c
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
-#include <stdint.h>
+#include <errno.h>
 #include <fcntl.h>
-#include <unistd.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
-#include <errno.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <sys/sysinfo.h>
 #include <sys/sysmacros.h>
+#include <time.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
 
 #include "igt_perf.h"
 
@@ -111,6 +112,8 @@ _perf_open(uint64_t type, uint64_t config, int group, uint64_t format)
 
 	attr.read_format = format;
 	attr.config = config;
+	attr.use_clockid = 1;
+	attr.clockid = CLOCK_MONOTONIC;
 
 	do {
 		ret = perf_event_open(&attr, -1, cpu++, group, 0);