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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hrtimer/timer_stats.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/timer_stats.c | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 5 |
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/hrtimer/timer_stats.txt b/Documentation/hrtimer/timer_stats.txt index 27f782e3593..22b0814d0ad 100644 --- a/Documentation/hrtimer/timer_stats.txt +++ b/Documentation/hrtimer/timer_stats.txt @@ -2,9 +2,10 @@ 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. It is not intended for -production usage as it adds significant overhead to the (hr)timer code and the -(hr)timer data structures. +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 diff --git a/kernel/time/timer_stats.c b/kernel/time/timer_stats.c index fa3d380ca8c..321693724ad 100644 --- a/kernel/time/timer_stats.c +++ b/kernel/time/timer_stats.c @@ -236,10 +236,15 @@ void timer_stats_update_stats(void *timer, pid_t pid, void *startf, /* * It doesnt matter which lock we take: */ - spinlock_t *lock = &per_cpu(lookup_lock, raw_smp_processor_id()); + spinlock_t *lock; struct entry *entry, input; unsigned long flags; + if (likely(!active)) + return; + + lock = &per_cpu(lookup_lock, raw_smp_processor_id()); + input.timer = timer; input.start_func = startf; input.expire_func = timerf; diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 1ba77ca7d16..da95e10cfd7 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -126,7 +126,10 @@ config TIMER_STATS 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. + about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature + is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated + (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated + if some application like powertop activates it explicitly). config DEBUG_SLAB bool "Debug slab memory allocations" |