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diff --git a/Documentation/timers/timer_stats.txt b/Documentation/timers/timer_stats.txt deleted file mode 100644 index de835ee97455..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/timers/timer_stats.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,73 +0,0 @@ -timer_stats - timer usage statistics ------------------------------------- - -timer_stats is a debugging facility to make the timer (ab)usage in a Linux -system visible to kernel and userspace developers. If enabled in the config -but not used it has almost zero runtime overhead, and a relatively small -data structure overhead. Even if collection is enabled runtime all the -locking is per-CPU and lookup is hashed. - -timer_stats should be used by kernel and userspace developers to verify that -their code does not make unduly use of timers. This helps to avoid unnecessary -wakeups, which should be avoided to optimize power consumption. - -It can be enabled by CONFIG_TIMER_STATS in the "Kernel hacking" configuration -section. - -timer_stats collects information about the timer events which are fired in a -Linux system over a sample period: - -- the pid of the task(process) which initialized the timer -- the name of the process which initialized the timer -- the function where the timer was initialized -- the callback function which is associated to the timer -- the number of events (callbacks) - -timer_stats adds an entry to /proc: /proc/timer_stats - -This entry is used to control the statistics functionality and to read out the -sampled information. - -The timer_stats functionality is inactive on bootup. - -To activate a sample period issue: -# echo 1 >/proc/timer_stats - -To stop a sample period issue: -# echo 0 >/proc/timer_stats - -The statistics can be retrieved by: -# cat /proc/timer_stats - -While sampling is enabled, each readout from /proc/timer_stats will see -newly updated statistics. Once sampling is disabled, the sampled information -is kept until a new sample period is started. This allows multiple readouts. - -Sample output of /proc/timer_stats: - -Timerstats sample period: 3.888770 s - 12, 0 swapper hrtimer_stop_sched_tick (hrtimer_sched_tick) - 15, 1 swapper hcd_submit_urb (rh_timer_func) - 4, 959 kedac schedule_timeout (process_timeout) - 1, 0 swapper page_writeback_init (wb_timer_fn) - 28, 0 swapper hrtimer_stop_sched_tick (hrtimer_sched_tick) - 22, 2948 IRQ 4 tty_flip_buffer_push (delayed_work_timer_fn) - 3, 3100 bash schedule_timeout (process_timeout) - 1, 1 swapper queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn) - 1, 1 swapper queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn) - 1, 1 swapper neigh_table_init_no_netlink (neigh_periodic_timer) - 1, 2292 ip __netdev_watchdog_up (dev_watchdog) - 1, 23 events/1 do_cache_clean (delayed_work_timer_fn) -90 total events, 30.0 events/sec - -The first column is the number of events, the second column the pid, the third -column is the name of the process. The forth column shows the function which -initialized the timer and in parenthesis the callback function which was -executed on expiry. - - Thomas, Ingo - -Added flag to indicate 'deferrable timer' in /proc/timer_stats. A deferrable -timer will appear as follows - 10D, 1 swapper queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn) - |