[PATCH] commands: time: add -n option for nanoseconds output

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Mon Jan 3 04:03:10 PST 2022


The current millisecond output may be too coarse for debugging timing
of barebox functionality. Add an optional nanosecond output.

Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
---
 commands/time.c | 21 ++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/commands/time.c b/commands/time.c
index 25ba2da15ed5..2d9fb75e7a8c 100644
--- a/commands/time.c
+++ b/commands/time.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ static int do_time(int argc, char *argv[])
 	int i;
 	unsigned char *buf;
 	u64 start, end, diff64;
-	unsigned long diff;
+	bool nanoseconds = false;
 	int len = 1; /* '\0' */
 
 	if (argc < 2)
@@ -20,7 +20,13 @@ static int do_time(int argc, char *argv[])
 
 	buf = xzalloc(len);
 
-	for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
+	i = 1;
+	if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-n")) {
+		nanoseconds = true;
+		i++;
+	}
+
+	for (; i < argc; i++) {
 		strcat(buf, argv[i]);
 		strcat(buf, " ");
 	}
@@ -33,11 +39,10 @@ static int do_time(int argc, char *argv[])
 
 	diff64 = end - start;
 
-	do_div(diff64, 1000000);
-
-	diff = diff64;
+	if (!nanoseconds)
+		do_div(diff64, 1000000);
 
-	printf("time: %lums\n", diff);
+	printf("time: %llu%cs\n", diff64, nanoseconds ? 'n' : 'm');
 
 	free(buf);
 
@@ -47,12 +52,14 @@ static int do_time(int argc, char *argv[])
 BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_START(time)
 BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("Note: This command depends on COMMAND being interruptible,")
 BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("otherwise the timer may overrun resulting in incorrect results")
+BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("Options:")
+BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_OPT ("-n",     "output elapsed time in nanoseconds")
 BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_END
 
 BAREBOX_CMD_START(time)
 	.cmd		= do_time,
 	BAREBOX_CMD_DESC("measure execution duration of a command")
-	BAREBOX_CMD_OPTS("COMMAND")
+	BAREBOX_CMD_OPTS("[-n] COMMAND")
 	BAREBOX_CMD_GROUP(CMD_GRP_MISC)
 	BAREBOX_CMD_HELP(cmd_time_help)
 BAREBOX_CMD_END
-- 
2.30.2




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