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authorFrank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>2009-11-19 16:54:05 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-12-06 07:20:02 -0500
commitf5754bfd107b08edddaf871d676ec6fe0792d07a (patch)
treede98963fe232dd2d8578710b8db31e2d72d28f3c
parent109d71c6dd52ec08878c2c67eb4c0bd67fcbc80b (diff)
lockstat: Add usage info to Documentation/lockstat.txt
Add usage info to Documentation/lockstat.txt Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4B05BE7D.30500@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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@@ -62,8 +62,20 @@ applicable).
62It also tracks 4 contention points per class. A contention point is a call site 62It also tracks 4 contention points per class. A contention point is a call site
63that had to wait on lock acquisition. 63that had to wait on lock acquisition.
64 64
65 - CONFIGURATION
66
67Lock statistics are enabled via CONFIG_LOCK_STATS.
68
65 - USAGE 69 - USAGE
66 70
71Enable collection of statistics:
72
73# echo 1 >/proc/sys/kernel/lock_stat
74
75Disable collection of statistics:
76
77# echo 0 >/proc/sys/kernel/lock_stat
78
67Look at the current lock statistics: 79Look at the current lock statistics:
68 80
69( line numbers not part of actual output, done for clarity in the explanation 81( line numbers not part of actual output, done for clarity in the explanation