danos/library/kernel/time.zig

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//! The danos time interface — monotonic time, delays, and deadlines for user space.
//!
//! There is no time *service*: the kernel already owns the scheduling timer and
//! surfaces it directly, so reading the clock is one system call (an `rdtsc` and a
//! scale), never an IPC round trip (docs/timers.md explains why). This module is a
//! thin, generic layer over the `clock`/`sleep`/`timer_bind` wrappers in `system.zig`
//! — an ergonomic `Instant`/`Duration` front door, not new mechanism.
//!
//! It is **monotonic** time only: nanoseconds since boot, moving forward, no date or
//! timezone. Wall-clock/calendar time is a separate user-space service (an RTC-backed
//! CLOCK_REALTIME) layered on top later.
const std = @import("std");
const sc = @import("system-call");
// --- raw syscall wrappers, formerly in the system.zig dumping ground ---
/// Monotonic nanoseconds since boot — the raw reading; `now()` wraps it in an `Instant`.
/// Never runs backward. Not wall-clock time (see `wallClock`).
pub fn clock() u64 {
return @intCast(sc.systemCall0(.clock));
}
/// Wall-clock time in Unix epoch seconds (UTC), from the RTC — the real date/time, what a
/// filesystem stamps as an mtime. Unlike `clock` (monotonic since boot), this is calendar time.
pub fn wallClock() u64 {
return @intCast(sc.systemCall0(.wall_clock));
}
/// Block the caller for `ms` milliseconds — the raw, coarse, allocation-free form.
pub fn sleepMillis(ms: u64) void {
_ = sc.systemCall1(.sleep, ms);
}
/// Arm a one-shot timer: after `ms` the kernel posts a timer notification
/// (`ipc.Received.isTimer`) to `endpoint` (a handle from `ipc.createIpcEndpoint`). Unlike
/// `sleep`, does not block — a service keeps serving IPC while the deadline is pending.
pub fn timerOnce(endpoint: usize, ms: u64) bool {
return sc.systemCall2(.timer_bind, endpoint, ms) == 0;
}
const nanos_per_micro: u64 = 1_000;
const nanos_per_milli: u64 = 1_000_000;
const nanos_per_second: u64 = 1_000_000_000;
/// A span of time, held as nanoseconds. Constructors name their unit; accessors
/// truncate toward zero. `ceilMillis` rounds *up*, since `sleep`/`after` land on the
/// kernel's millisecond granularity and rounding down could return early.
pub const Duration = struct {
ns: u64,
pub fn fromNanos(n: u64) Duration {
return .{ .ns = n };
}
pub fn fromMicros(n: u64) Duration {
return .{ .ns = n *| nanos_per_micro };
}
pub fn fromMillis(n: u64) Duration {
return .{ .ns = n *| nanos_per_milli };
}
pub fn fromSeconds(n: u64) Duration {
return .{ .ns = n *| nanos_per_second };
}
pub fn asNanos(d: Duration) u64 {
return d.ns;
}
pub fn asMicros(d: Duration) u64 {
return d.ns / nanos_per_micro;
}
pub fn asMillis(d: Duration) u64 {
return d.ns / nanos_per_milli;
}
pub fn asSeconds(d: Duration) u64 {
return d.ns / nanos_per_second;
}
/// Whole milliseconds, rounded up — the argument `sleep`/`after` pass the kernel.
/// A non-zero sub-millisecond duration becomes 1 ms rather than 0.
pub fn ceilMillis(d: Duration) u64 {
return (d.ns +| (nanos_per_milli - 1)) / nanos_per_milli;
}
pub fn plus(a: Duration, b: Duration) Duration {
return .{ .ns = a.ns +| b.ns };
}
};
/// A point on the monotonic clock — nanoseconds since boot. Compare and subtract
/// instants to measure elapsed time; it never runs backward, so `since` is safe to
/// saturate at zero rather than wrap.
pub const Instant = struct {
ns: u64,
/// The span from `earlier` to `self`, saturating at zero if `earlier` is later
/// (which the monotonic clock should never produce, but callers may pass any pair).
pub fn since(self: Instant, earlier: Instant) Duration {
return .{ .ns = self.ns -| earlier.ns };
}
/// How long since this instant, sampled now.
pub fn elapsed(self: Instant) Duration {
return now().since(self);
}
/// This instant advanced by `d` (a deadline, `d` from here).
pub fn plus(self: Instant, d: Duration) Instant {
return .{ .ns = self.ns +| d.ns };
}
/// Whether the monotonic clock has reached this instant (used as a deadline).
pub fn reached(deadline: Instant) bool {
return now().ns >= deadline.ns;
}
};
/// The current monotonic time.
pub fn now() Instant {
return .{ .ns = clock() };
}
/// Monotonic nanoseconds since boot — the raw `clock()` reading, for callers that
/// want a plain integer instead of an `Instant`.
pub fn monotonicNanos() u64 {
return clock();
}
/// Whether the monotonic clock is usable. The kernel returns 0 until the TSC is
/// calibrated (`tsc_hz == 0`); a caller that needs real time can treat that as
/// "unavailable" instead of assuming the clock advances.
pub fn available() bool {
return clock() != 0;
}
/// Block the caller for at least `d`, rounded up to the kernel's millisecond
/// granularity. For sub-millisecond precision the scheduler cannot express, use
/// `spin`. (The raw millisecond form is `sleepMillis`.)
pub fn sleep(d: Duration) void {
sleepMillis(d.ceilMillis());
}
/// Busy-wait until `d` has elapsed, polling the monotonic clock. This burns the CPU
/// on purpose, to hit sub-millisecond delays the scheduler's millisecond tick cannot.
/// Prefer `sleep` for anything at or above a millisecond.
pub fn spin(d: Duration) void {
const deadline = now().plus(d);
while (!deadline.reached()) {}
}
/// The ergonomic `Duration` form of `timerOnce`: arm a one-shot timer against `endpoint`
/// for `d` (rounded up to milliseconds). Returns false if the timer could not be armed.
pub fn after(endpoint: usize, d: Duration) bool {
return timerOnce(endpoint, d.ceilMillis());
}
test "Duration unit conversions round toward zero" {
try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(u64, 1_000_000_000), Duration.fromSeconds(1).asNanos());
try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(u64, 1_500), Duration.fromNanos(1_500).asNanos());
try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(u64, 2), Duration.fromMillis(2).asMillis());
try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(u64, 1), Duration.fromNanos(1_999_999).asMillis());
try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(u64, 250), Duration.fromMicros(250).asMicros());
}
test "ceilMillis rounds up, and never turns a nonzero span into zero" {
try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(u64, 0), Duration.fromNanos(0).ceilMillis());
try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(u64, 1), Duration.fromNanos(1).ceilMillis());
try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(u64, 1), Duration.fromMillis(1).ceilMillis());
try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(u64, 2), Duration.fromNanos(nanos_per_milli + 1).ceilMillis());
try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(u64, 5), Duration.fromMillis(5).ceilMillis());
}
test "Instant arithmetic: since saturates, plus/reached form deadlines" {
const t0 = Instant{ .ns = 1_000 };
const t1 = Instant{ .ns = 4_000 };
try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(u64, 3_000), t1.since(t0).asNanos());
// earlier-than-self can't happen on a monotonic clock; saturate rather than wrap.
try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(u64, 0), t0.since(t1).asNanos());
const deadline = t0.plus(Duration.fromNanos(2_500));
try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(u64, 3_500), deadline.ns);
}
test "saturating arithmetic does not overflow at the u64 ceiling" {
const big = Duration.fromSeconds(std.math.maxInt(u64));
try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(u64, std.math.maxInt(u64)), big.asNanos());
const late = Instant{ .ns = std.math.maxInt(u64) };
try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(u64, std.math.maxInt(u64)), late.plus(Duration.fromSeconds(10)).ns);
}