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diff --git a/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_timerlat_description.rst b/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_timerlat_description.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..321201cb8597 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_timerlat_description.rst @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +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. |