Use CLOCK_BOOTTIME to calculate BootTime on linux (#67589)

Co-authored-by: Adam Sitnik <adam.sitnik@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jeff Handley <jeffhandley@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Simon Rozsival <simon@rozsival.com>

src/libraries/Common/src/Interop/Linux/procfs/Interop.ProcFsStat.cs

@@ -19,10 +19,6 @@ internal static partial class @procfs
         private const string FileDescriptorDirectoryName = "/fd/";
         private const string TaskDirectoryName = "/task/";
 
-        internal const string SelfExeFilePath = RootPath + "self" + ExeFileName;
-        internal const string SelfCmdLineFilePath = RootPath + "self" + CmdLineFileName;
-        internal const string ProcStatFilePath = RootPath + "stat";
-
         internal struct ParsedStat
         {
             // Commented out fields are available in the stat data file but

src/libraries/Common/src/Interop/Unix/System.Native/Interop.GetBootTimeTicks.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
+// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
+
+using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
+
+internal static partial class Interop
+{
+    internal static partial class Sys
+    {
+        [LibraryImport(Libraries.SystemNative, EntryPoint = "SystemNative_GetBootTimeTicks")]
+        [SuppressGCTransition]
+        internal static partial long GetBootTimeTicks();
+    }
+}

src/libraries/System.Diagnostics.Process/src/System.Diagnostics.Process.csproj

@@ -302,6 +302,8 @@
              Link="Common\Interop\Linux\Interop.ProcFsStat.ParseMapModules.cs" />
     <Compile Include="$(CommonPath)Interop\Linux\procfs\Interop.ProcFsStat.TryReadStatusFile.cs"
              Link="Common\Interop\Linux\Interop.ProcFsStat.TryReadStatusFile.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="$(CommonPath)Interop\Unix\System.Native\Interop.GetBootTimeTicks.cs"
+             Link="Common\Interop\Linux\Interop.GetBootTimeTicks.cs" />
     <Compile Include="$(CommonPath)Interop\Unix\System.Native\Interop.SchedGetSetAffinity.cs"
              Link="Common\Interop\Linux\Interop.SchedGetSetAffinity.cs" />
   </ItemGroup>

src/libraries/System.Diagnostics.Process/src/System/Diagnostics/Process.Linux.cs

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 using System.IO;
 using System.Runtime.Versioning;
 using System.Text;
+using System.Threading;
 
 namespace System.Diagnostics
 {
@@ -79,33 +80,25 @@ internal static DateTime BootTimeToDateTime(TimeSpan timespanAfterBoot)
             return dt.ToLocalTime();
         }
 
+        private static long s_bootTimeTicks;
         /// <summary>Gets the system boot time.</summary>
         private static DateTime BootTime
         {
             get
             {
-                // '/proc/stat -> btime' gets the boot time.
-                // btime is the time of system boot in seconds since the Unix epoch.
-                // It includes suspended time and is updated based on the system time (settimeofday).
-                const string StatFile = Interop.procfs.ProcStatFilePath;
-                string text = File.ReadAllText(StatFile);
-                int btimeLineStart = text.IndexOf("\nbtime ", StringComparison.Ordinal);
-                if (btimeLineStart >= 0)
-                {
-                    int btimeStart = btimeLineStart + "\nbtime ".Length;
-                    int btimeEnd = text.IndexOf('\n', btimeStart);
-                    if (btimeEnd > btimeStart)
+               long bootTimeTicks = Interlocked.Read(ref s_bootTimeTicks);
+               if (bootTimeTicks == 0)
+               {
+                    bootTimeTicks = Interop.Sys.GetBootTimeTicks();
+                    long oldValue = Interlocked.CompareExchange(ref s_bootTimeTicks, bootTimeTicks, 0);
+                    if (oldValue != 0) // a different thread has managed to update the ticks first
                     {
-                        if (long.TryParse(text.AsSpan(btimeStart, btimeEnd - btimeStart), out long bootTimeSeconds))
-                        {
-                            return DateTime.UnixEpoch + TimeSpan.FromSeconds(bootTimeSeconds);
-                        }
+                        bootTimeTicks = oldValue; // consistency
                     }
-                }
-
-                return DateTime.UtcNow;
-            }
-        }
+               }
+               return new DateTime(bootTimeTicks);
+           }
+       }
 
         /// <summary>Gets the parent process ID</summary>
         private int ParentProcessId =>
@@ -258,11 +251,8 @@ private static void SetWorkingSetLimitsCore(IntPtr? newMin, IntPtr? newMax, out
         /// <param name="processId">The pid for the target process, or -1 for the current process.</param>
         internal static string? GetExePath(int processId = -1)
         {
-            string exeFilePath = processId == -1 ?
-                Interop.procfs.SelfExeFilePath :
-                Interop.procfs.GetExeFilePathForProcess(processId);
-
-            return Interop.Sys.ReadLink(exeFilePath);
+            return processId == -1 ? Environment.ProcessPath :
+                Interop.Sys.ReadLink(Interop.procfs.GetExeFilePathForProcess(processId));
         }
 
         /// <summary>Gets the name that was used to start the process, or null if it could not be retrieved.</summary>

src/libraries/System.Diagnostics.Process/tests/ProcessTests.cs

@@ -1152,13 +1152,13 @@ public void TestGetProcesses()
 
             // Get all the processes running on the machine, and check if the current process is one of them.
             var foundCurrentProcess = (from p in Process.GetProcesses()
-                                       where (p.Id == currentProcess.Id) && (p.ProcessName.Equals(currentProcess.ProcessName))
+                                       where (p.Id == currentProcess.Id) && (p.ProcessName.Equals(currentProcess.ProcessName)) && (p.StartTime == currentProcess.StartTime)
                                        select p).Any();
 
             Assert.True(foundCurrentProcess, "TestGetProcesses001 failed");
 
             foundCurrentProcess = (from p in Process.GetProcesses(currentProcess.MachineName)
-                                   where (p.Id == currentProcess.Id) && (p.ProcessName.Equals(currentProcess.ProcessName))
+                                   where (p.Id == currentProcess.Id) && (p.ProcessName.Equals(currentProcess.ProcessName)) && (p.StartTime == currentProcess.StartTime)
                                    select p).Any();
 
             Assert.True(foundCurrentProcess, "TestGetProcesses002 failed");
@@ -1248,6 +1248,7 @@ public void GetProcessesByName_ProcessName_ReturnsExpected()
 
                 Assert.All(processes, process => Assert.Equal(currentProcess.ProcessName, process.ProcessName));
                 Assert.All(processes, process => Assert.Equal(".", process.MachineName));
+                Assert.All(processes, process => Assert.Equal(currentProcess.StartTime, process.StartTime));
             }
 
             // Outputs a list of active processes in case of failure: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/28874

src/native/libs/System.Native/entrypoints.c

@@ -245,6 +245,7 @@ static const Entry s_sysNative[] =
     DllImportEntry(SystemNative_UTimensat)
     DllImportEntry(SystemNative_FUTimens)
     DllImportEntry(SystemNative_GetTimestamp)
+    DllImportEntry(SystemNative_GetBootTimeTicks)
     DllImportEntry(SystemNative_GetCpuUtilization)
     DllImportEntry(SystemNative_GetPwUidR)
     DllImportEntry(SystemNative_GetPwNamR)

src/native/libs/System.Native/pal_time.c

@@ -18,9 +18,10 @@
 
 enum
 {
-    SecondsToMicroSeconds = 1000000,   // 10^6
-    SecondsToNanoSeconds = 1000000000, // 10^9
-    MicroSecondsToNanoSeconds = 1000   // 10^3
+    MicroSecondsToNanoSeconds = 1000,   // 10^3
+    SecondsToNanoSeconds = 1000000000,  // 10^9
+    SecondsToTicks = 10000000,          // 10^7
+    TicksToNanoSeconds = 100,           // 10^2
 };
 
 int32_t SystemNative_UTimensat(const char* path, TimeSpec* times)
@@ -95,6 +96,29 @@ uint64_t SystemNative_GetTimestamp()
 #endif
 }
 
+int64_t SystemNative_GetBootTimeTicks()
+{
+#if defined(TARGET_LINUX) || defined(TARGET_ANDROID)
+    struct timespec ts;
+
+    int result = clock_gettime(CLOCK_BOOTTIME, &ts);
+    assert(result == 0); // only possible errors are if the given clockId isn't supported or &ts is an invalid address
+    (void)result; // suppress unused parameter warning in release builds
+
+    int64_t sinceBootTicks = ((int64_t)ts.tv_sec * SecondsToTicks) + (ts.tv_nsec / TicksToNanoSeconds);
+
+    result = clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE, &ts);
+    assert(result == 0);
+
+    int64_t sinceEpochTicks = ((int64_t)ts.tv_sec * SecondsToTicks) + (ts.tv_nsec / TicksToNanoSeconds);
+    const int64_t UnixEpochTicks = 621355968000000000;
+
+    return UnixEpochTicks + sinceEpochTicks - sinceBootTicks;
+#else
+    return -1;
+#endif
+}
+
 double SystemNative_GetCpuUtilization(ProcessCpuInformation* previousCpuInfo)
 {
     uint64_t kernelTime = 0;

src/native/libs/System.Native/pal_time.h

@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ PALEXPORT int32_t SystemNative_FUTimens(intptr_t fd, TimeSpec* times);
  */
 PALEXPORT uint64_t SystemNative_GetTimestamp(void);
 
+/**
+ * Gets system boot time ticks. (Linux only)
+ */
+PALEXPORT int64_t SystemNative_GetBootTimeTicks(void);
+
 /**
  * The main purpose of this function is to compute the overall CPU utilization
  * for the CLR thread pool to regulate the number of worker threads.