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 <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: john stultz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>