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>
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Venki Pallipadi
2007-07-15 23:40:30 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent e080706190
commit c5c061b8f9
5 changed files with 36 additions and 16 deletions

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@@ -67,3 +67,7 @@ executed on expiry.
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)