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@@ -62,8 +62,20 @@ applicable).
It also tracks 4 contention points per class. A contention point is a call site
that had to wait on lock acquisition.
+ - CONFIGURATION
+
+Lock statistics are enabled via CONFIG_LOCK_STATS.
+
- USAGE
+Enable collection of statistics:
+
+# echo 1 >/proc/sys/kernel/lock_stat
+
+Disable collection of statistics:
+
+# echo 0 >/proc/sys/kernel/lock_stat
+
Look at the current lock statistics:
( line numbers not part of actual output, done for clarity in the explanation