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Thomas Gleixner
3833eecc18 Documentation: move timer related documentation to a single place
We have two directories with timer related information in
Documentation/: hrtimers/ and hrtimer/. timer_stats are not restricted
to hrtimers. Move all those files into Documentation/timers where we
can pile up other timer related docs as well.

Pointed-out-by: Randy Dunlap <randy@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17 12:22:31 +02:00
Venki Pallipadi
c5c061b8f9 Add a flag to indicate deferrable timers in /proc/timer_stats
Add a flag in /proc/timer_stats to indicate deferrable timers.  This will
let developers/users to differentiate between types of tiemrs in
/proc/timer_stats.

Deferrable timer and normal timer will appear in /proc/timer_stats as below.
  10D,     1 swapper          queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn)
   10,     1 swapper          queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn)

Also version of timer_stats changes from v0.1 to v0.2

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:45 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
c1a834dc70 timer stats: speedups
Make timer-stats have almost zero overhead when enabled in the config but
not used.  (this way distros can enable it more easily)

Also update the documentation about overhead of timer_stats - it was
written for the first version which had a global lock and a linear list
walk based lookup ;-)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-01 08:18:30 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
82f67cd9fc [PATCH] Add debugging feature /proc/timer_stat
Add /proc/timer_stats support: debugging feature to profile timer expiration.
Both the starting site, process/PID and the expiration function is captured.
This allows the quick identification of timer event sources in a system.

Sample output:

# echo 1 > /proc/timer_stats
# cat /proc/timer_stats
Timer Stats Version: v0.1
Sample period: 4.010 s
  24,     0 swapper          hrtimer_stop_sched_tick (hrtimer_sched_tick)
  11,     0 swapper          sk_reset_timer (tcp_delack_timer)
   6,     0 swapper          hrtimer_stop_sched_tick (hrtimer_sched_tick)
   2,     1 swapper          queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn)
  17,     0 swapper          hrtimer_restart_sched_tick (hrtimer_sched_tick)
   2,     1 swapper          queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn)
   4,  2050 pcscd            do_nanosleep (hrtimer_wakeup)
   5,  4179 sshd             sk_reset_timer (tcp_write_timer)
   4,  2248 yum-updatesd     schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
  18,     0 swapper          hrtimer_restart_sched_tick (hrtimer_sched_tick)
   3,     0 swapper          sk_reset_timer (tcp_delack_timer)
   1,     1 swapper          neigh_table_init_no_netlink (neigh_periodic_timer)
   2,     1 swapper          e1000_up (e1000_watchdog)
   1,     1 init             schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
100 total events, 25.24 events/sec

[ cleanups and hrtimers support from Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> ]
[bunk@stusta.de: nr_entries can become static]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16 08:13:59 -08:00