linux/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_timerlat_description.rst
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira 29380d4055 rtla: Add rtla timerlat documentation
Man page for rtla timerlat tool.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/78678b8d024bf5a3a79f831ac9441b96e8d2f56e.1639158831.git.bristot@kernel.org

Cc: Tao Zhou <tao.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
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Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2022-01-13 17:02:43 -05:00

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The **rtla timerlat** tool is an interface for the *timerlat* tracer. The
*timerlat* tracer dispatches a kernel thread per-cpu. These threads
set a periodic timer to wake themselves up and go back to sleep. After
the wakeup, they collect and generate useful information for the
debugging of operating system timer latency.
The *timerlat* tracer outputs information in two ways. It periodically
prints the timer latency at the timer *IRQ* handler and the *Thread*
handler. It also enable the trace of the most relevant information via
**osnoise:** tracepoints.