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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-02-16 08:13:59 -0800
commit82f67cd9fca8c8762c15ba7ed0d5747588c1e221 (patch)
tree1ff7e5cc496580b85bb42fb1d7b19dcbef7b7776 /lib
parent8bfd9a7a229b5f3d3eda5d7d45c2eebec5b4ba16 (diff)
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig.debug11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 63f04c15e6f..4448f91b865 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -134,6 +134,17 @@ config SCHEDSTATS
application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
this adds.
+config TIMER_STATS
+ bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
+ help
+ If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
+ timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
+ reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
+ The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
+ writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
+ about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace.
+
config DEBUG_SLAB
bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB