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authorVenki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>2007-07-15 23:40:30 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-16 09:05:45 -0700
commitc5c061b8f9726bc2c25e19dec227933a13d1e6b7 (patch)
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parente0807061908a7a9441d0f745deb444f7216904cb (diff)
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Add a flag to indicate deferrable timers in /proc/timer_stats
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 <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hrtimer/timer_stats.txt4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/hrtimer/timer_stats.txt b/Documentation/hrtimer/timer_stats.txt
index 22b0814d0ad0..20d368c59814 100644
--- a/Documentation/hrtimer/timer_stats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/hrtimer/timer_stats.txt
@@ -67,3 +67,7 @@ executed on expiry.
 
     Thomas, Ingo
 
+Added flag to indicate 'deferrable timer' in /proc/timer_stats. A deferrable
+timer will appear as follows
+  10D,     1 swapper          queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn)
+