From: changbin.du@intel.com
To: corbet@lwn.net, rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 15/17] trace doc: convert trace/hwlat_detector.txt to rst fromat
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 13:39:48 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1518845990-20733-16-git-send-email-changbin.du@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1518845990-20733-1-git-send-email-changbin.du@intel.com>
From: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
---
.../{hwlat_detector.txt => hwlat_detector.rst} | 26 +++++++++++++---------
Documentation/trace/index.rst | 1 +
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
rename Documentation/trace/{hwlat_detector.txt => hwlat_detector.rst} (83%)
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/hwlat_detector.txt b/Documentation/trace/hwlat_detector.rst
similarity index 83%
rename from Documentation/trace/hwlat_detector.txt
rename to Documentation/trace/hwlat_detector.rst
index 3207717..5739349 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/hwlat_detector.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/hwlat_detector.rst
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-Introduction:
+=========================
+Hardware Latency Detector
+=========================
+
+Introduction
-------------
The tracer hwlat_detector is a special purpose tracer that is used to
@@ -28,7 +32,7 @@ Note that the hwlat detector should *NEVER* be used in a production environment.
It is intended to be run manually to determine if the hardware platform has a
problem with long system firmware service routines.
-Usage:
+Usage
------
Write the ASCII text "hwlat" into the current_tracer file of the tracing system
@@ -36,16 +40,16 @@ Write the ASCII text "hwlat" into the current_tracer file of the tracing system
redefine the threshold in microseconds (us) above which latency spikes will
be taken into account.
-Example:
+Example::
# echo hwlat > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer
# echo 100 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_thresh
The /sys/kernel/tracing/hwlat_detector interface contains the following files:
-width - time period to sample with CPUs held (usecs)
- must be less than the total window size (enforced)
-window - total period of sampling, width being inside (usecs)
+ - width - time period to sample with CPUs held (usecs)
+ must be less than the total window size (enforced)
+ - window - total period of sampling, width being inside (usecs)
By default the width is set to 500,000 and window to 1,000,000, meaning that
for every 1,000,000 usecs (1s) the hwlat detector will spin for 500,000 usecs
@@ -67,11 +71,11 @@ The following tracing directory files are used by the hwlat_detector:
in /sys/kernel/tracing:
- tracing_threshold - minimum latency value to be considered (usecs)
- tracing_max_latency - maximum hardware latency actually observed (usecs)
- tracing_cpumask - the CPUs to move the hwlat thread across
- hwlat_detector/width - specified amount of time to spin within window (usecs)
- hwlat_detector/window - amount of time between (width) runs (usecs)
+ - tracing_threshold - minimum latency value to be considered (usecs)
+ - tracing_max_latency - maximum hardware latency actually observed (usecs)
+ - tracing_cpumask - the CPUs to move the hwlat thread across
+ - hwlat_detector/width - specified amount of time to spin within window (usecs)
+ - hwlat_detector/window - amount of time between (width) runs (usecs)
The hwlat detector's kernel thread will migrate across each CPU specified in
tracing_cpumask between each window. To limit the migration, either modify
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/index.rst b/Documentation/trace/index.rst
index 4b3d690..eabbbaf 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/index.rst
@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@ Linux Tracing Technologies
events-nmi
events-msr
mmiotrace
+ hwlat_detector
--
2.7.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-17 5:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-17 5:39 [PATCH 00/17] Include linux trace docs to Sphinx TOC tree changbin.du
2018-02-17 5:39 ` [PATCH 01/17] Documentation: add Linux tracing " changbin.du
2018-02-17 5:39 ` [PATCH 02/17] trace doc: convert trace/ftrace-design.txt to rst format changbin.du
2018-02-17 5:39 ` [PATCH 03/17] trace doc: add ftrace-uses.rst to doc tree changbin.du
2018-02-17 5:39 ` [PATCH 04/17] trace doc: convert trace/tracepoint-analysis.txt to rst format changbin.du
2018-02-17 5:39 ` [PATCH 05/17] trace doc: convert trace/ftrace.txt " changbin.du
2018-02-20 7:28 ` Philippe Ombredanne
2018-02-20 13:27 ` Du, Changbin
2018-02-20 15:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-02-20 16:36 ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-02-17 5:39 ` [PATCH 06/17] trace doc: convert trace/kprobetrace.txt " changbin.du
2018-02-17 5:39 ` [PATCH 07/17] trace doc: convert trace/uprobetracer.txt " changbin.du
2018-02-17 5:39 ` [PATCH 08/17] trace doc: convert trace/tracepoints.txt " changbin.du
2018-02-17 5:39 ` [PATCH 09/17] trace doc: convert trace/events.txt " changbin.du
2018-02-17 5:39 ` [PATCH 10/17] trace doc: convert trace/events-kmem.txt " changbin.du
2018-02-17 5:39 ` [PATCH 11/17] trace doc: convert trace/events-power.txt " changbin.du
2018-02-17 5:39 ` [PATCH 12/17] trace doc: convert trace/events-nmi.txt " changbin.du
2018-02-17 5:39 ` [PATCH 13/17] trace doc: convert trace/events-msr.txt " changbin.du
2018-02-17 5:39 ` [PATCH 14/17] trace doc: convert trace/mmiotrace.txt " changbin.du
2018-02-17 5:39 ` changbin.du [this message]
2018-02-17 5:39 ` [PATCH 16/17] trace doc: convert trace/intel_th.txt " changbin.du
2018-02-17 5:39 ` [PATCH 17/17] trace doc: convert trace/stm.txt " changbin.du
2018-02-27 9:34 ` [PATCH 00/17] Include linux trace docs to Sphinx TOC tree Du, Changbin
2018-02-27 22:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-07 17:46 ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-03-08 2:42 ` Du, Changbin
2018-03-08 3:41 ` Steven Rostedt
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