Re: [coreboot] [RFC] How to add “nested” time stamps?

[Nico Huber]

On 03.12.2016 12:52, Paul Menzel via coreboot wrote:
> After rebuilding the utility `cbmem`, the relevant output looks like
> below.
>   60:device initialization                             457,880 (9,886)
>  120:starting timer init                               472,001 (14,121)
>  121:finished timer init                               472,008 (6)
>   70:device setup done                                 472,751 (742)
>
> Would that be acceptable to have nested entries? The down side is, the
> time from *device initialization* to *device setup done* has to be
> calculated manually now.

It's actually simple to make `cbmem` aware of the nesting, if you'd
store the level of the nesting for each timestamp.

All that `cbmem` would then have to do is, store the last timestamp of
each level in an array, and everytime it encounters a decrease in level,
output a third number, that is the difference of the current to the
last timestamp of its level.

Nico