At the plumbers conference this came up, so here's a wishlist bug: Right now in systemd at every boot we print the time the boot process took, split up into three values: kernel, initrd, userspace. I'd like to extend this to two more values: firmware and boot loader. The CoreBoot folks suggested we should simply invoke RDTSC once very early in the grub boot code, and store that away in memory. And then after loading the kernel and the initrd into RAM, right before jumping into the kernel code call it another time. Since the TSC starts counting at 0 very early in the firmware we thus can calculate the time spent in the BIOS and in the boot loader. The two TSC values then would need to be passed to the OS in some way. An easy way would be as parameters on the kernel cmdline ("grub.start_tsc=..." and "grub.end_tsc=..." or so. TSC data can be skewed when used in SMP and in conjunction with certain power management features. However, the CoreBoot folks clarified that this should have little effect until the OS is up, since neither SMP nor PM is used that early and the accuracy needed for this information is very low. It would be the job of the Linux userspace to convert the TSC values into seconds.
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