Re: [U-Boot] Profiling uboot

[Ira W. Snyder]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 09:51:57AM +0530, Basavaraj Dengi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to measure the time taken by uboot, from its init till
> it jumps to zImage[kernel].
> 
> Any suggestions as to which API's to be used for that?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 

I've used the attached ptx_ts script to measure U-Boot. It probably came
from this mailing list at some point.

Ira

#! /usr/bin/perl
#
# ptx_ts - Pengutronix' Add A Time Stamp Filter V1
# written by Wolfram Sang, Copyright 2009 Pengutronix
# free software - no warranty - WTFPL V2, see http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/

use warnings;
use strict;
use Time::HiRes qw(gettimeofday tv_interval);

my $arg = defined($ARGV[0]) ? $ARGV[0] : '(?=foo)bar'; # false-branch is a 
regexp that never matches
if ($arg eq '--help') {
        print "ptx_ts [regexp] - a filter which prepends a timestamp to every 
line of STDOUT; time will be reset if [regexp] matches\n";
        print "  Example: microcom <microcom_options> | ptx_ts 'U-Boot 2.0'\n";
        exit 0;
}

my $old;
my $base;
$| = 1; # Flush output immediately

sub reset_time {
        $old = 0;
        $base = [gettimeofday()];
}

reset_time;
while (<STDIN>) {
        reset_time if (/$arg/o);
        my $new = tv_interval($base);
        my $diff = $new - $old;
        printf("[%10.6f] <%10.6f> $_", $new, $diff);
        $old = $new;
}

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