calibrate defaultOverheadCycles for ARM64

Usually ARM counter-timer frequency is range from 1-50Mhz which is
much less than that on x86, so we calibrate defaultOverheadCycles
for ARM.

Signed-off-by: howard zhang <howard.zhang@arm.com>

1 files changed, 42 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkg/sentry/time/sampler_arm64.go b/pkg/sentry/time/sampler_arm64.go
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+// Copyright 2018 The gVisor Authors.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+//+build arm64
+
+package time
+
+// getCNTFRQ get ARM counter-timer frequency
+func getCNTFRQ() TSCValue
+
+// getDefaultArchOverheadCycles get default OverheadCycles based on
+// ARM counter-timer frequency. Usually ARM counter-timer frequency
+// is range from 1-50Mhz which is much less than that on x86, so we
+// calibrate defaultOverheadCycles for ARM.
+func getDefaultArchOverheadCycles() TSCValue {
+	// estimated the clock frequency on x86 is 1Ghz.
+	// 1Ghz devided by counter-timer frequency of ARM to get
+	// frqRatio. defaultOverheadCycles of ARM equals to that on
+	// x86 devided by frqRatio
+	cntfrq := getCNTFRQ()
+	frqRatio := 1000000000 / cntfrq
+	overheadCycles := ( 1 * 1000 ) / frqRatio
+	return overheadCycles
+}
+
+// defaultOverheadTSC is the default estimated syscall overhead in TSC cycles.
+// It is further refined as syscalls are made.
+var defaultOverheadCycles = getDefaultArchOverheadCycles()
+
+// maxOverheadCycles is the maximum allowed syscall overhead in TSC cycles.
+var maxOverheadCycles = 100 * defaultOverheadCycles