[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>
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 63f04c1..4448f91 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -134,6 +134,17 @@
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