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authorDaniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>2021-12-10 19:11:31 +0100
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2022-01-13 17:02:43 -0500
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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> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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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.
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+================
+rtla-timerlat
+================
+-------------------------------------------
+Measures the operating system timer latency
+-------------------------------------------
+
+:Manual section: 1
+
+SYNOPSIS
+========
+**rtla timerlat** [*MODE*] ...
+
+DESCRIPTION
+===========
+
+.. include:: common_timerlat_description.rst
+
+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 provides information for each noise via the **osnoise:** tracepoints.
+The **rtla timerlat top** mode displays a summary of the periodic output
+from the *timerlat* tracer. The **rtla hist hist** mode displays a histogram
+of each tracer event occurrence. For further details, please refer to the
+respective man page.
+
+MODES
+=====
+**top**
+
+ Prints the summary from *timerlat* tracer.
+
+**hist**
+
+ Prints a histogram of timerlat samples.
+
+If no *MODE* is given, the top mode is called, passing the arguments.
+
+OPTIONS
+=======
+**-h**, **--help**
+
+ Display the help text.
+
+For other options, see the man page for the corresponding mode.
+
+SEE ALSO
+========
+**rtla-timerlat-top**\(1), **rtla-timerlat-hist**\(1)
+
+*timerlat* tracer documentation: <https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/trace/timerlat-tracer.html>
+
+AUTHOR
+======
+Written by Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
+
+.. include:: common_appendix.rst