This is the Chromium OS ‘bootstat’ utility. The utility is used to generate timestamps and other performance statistics during system boot.
bootstat <event-name>
This command gathers and records the contents of /proc/uptime
and disk statistics for the boot disk (the full disk, not the boot partition), and associates the data with the passed in <event-name>
.
bootstat_get_last <event-name> [ <stat> ... ]
Print on standard output the value of the selected statistics recorded when the specified event occurred. These are the available statistics:
time
: Total time since kernel startup at the time of the event.read-sectors
: Total sectors read from any partition of the boot device since kernel startup.write-sectors
: Total sectors written to any partition of the boot device since kernel startup.If multiple statistics are requested, they are reported in order, one per line. If no statistics are listed on the command line, the default is to report time
.
If an event has occurred more than once since kernel startup, only the statistics from the last occurrence are reported.
The C and C++ API is defined in bootstat.h
. See that header for specification details.
Uptime data are stored in a file named /tmp/uptime-<event-name>
; disk statistics are stored in a file named /tmp/disk-<event-name>
. This convention is a concession to pre-existing code that depends on these files existing with these specific names, including the platform_BootPerf test in autotest, the boot-complete upstart job, and the Chrome code to report boot time on the login screen.
New code should treat the file names as an implementation detail, not as the interface. You should not add new code that depends on the file names; instead, you should enhance the bootstat command and/or library to provide access to the data you need.
This is currently C code, because a) the code is required for use as a library accessible to both C and C++ code, and b) it's too small to justify the boilerplate required to have separate C and C++ bindings. However, if the program grows, it may be appropriate to convert all or part to C++.
To the extent that the code can be acceptable both to C and C++ compilers, it should also adhere to Google's C++ coding conventions. In areas where the code is C specific, use your best judgment (note that Google also has Objective-C coding conventions that may be useful).