1.\" Copyright (c) 2000 Kelly Yancey 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 27.Dd January 3, 2000 28.Dt MICROUPTIME 9 29.Os FreeBSD 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm microuptime , 32.Nm getmicrouptime , 33.Nm nanouptime , 34.Nm getnanouptime 35.Nd get the time elapsed since boot 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.Fd #include <sys/time.h> 38.Ft void 39.Fn microuptime "struct timeval *tv" 40.Ft void 41.Fn getmicrouptime "struct timeval *tv" 42.Ft void 43.Fn nanouptime "struct timespec *ts" 44.Ft void 45.Fn getnanouptime "struct timespec *tsp" 46.Sh DESCRIPTION 47The 48.Fn microuptime 49and 50.Fn getmicrouptime 51functions store the time elapsed since boot as a 52.Ft struct timeval 53at the address specified by 54.Fa tv . 55The 56.Fn nanouptime 57and 58.Fn getnanouptime 59functions perform the same utility, but record the elapsed time as a 60.Ft struct timespec 61instead. 62.Pp 63.Fn Microuptime 64and 65.Fn nanouptime 66always query the timecounter to return the current time as precisely as 67possible. Whereas 68.Fn getmicrouptime 69and 70.Fn getnanouptime 71functions are abstractions which can alternately return a less precise, but 72faster to obtain, time. This behaviour can be toggled via the 73kern.timecounter.method sysctl variable: 74.Bl -tag -width ABC 75.It Dv 0 76sacrifice precision in favor of faster code execution 77.It Dv 1 78return the more precise time (the same as calling 79.Fn microuptime 80or 81.Fn nanouptime ) . 82.El 83.Pp 84The intent of the 85.Fn getmicrouptime 86and 87.Fn getnanouptime 88functions is to enforce the user's preference for timer accuracy versus 89execution time. 90.Sh SEE ALSO 91.Xr getmicrotime 9 , 92.Xr getnanotime 9 , 93.Xr microtime 9 , 94.Xr nanotime 9 , 95.Xr tvtohz 9 96.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 97Buggy hardware can cause "calcru negative..." when kern.timecounter.method 98is set to 0. 99.Sh AUTHORS 100This manual page was written by 101.An Kelly Yancey Aq kbyanc@posi.net . 102