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