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>
diff --git a/Documentation/hrtimer/timer_stats.txt b/Documentation/hrtimer/timer_stats.txt
index 22b0814..20d368c 100644
--- a/Documentation/hrtimer/timer_stats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/hrtimer/timer_stats.txt
@@ -67,3 +67,7 @@
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)
+
