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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-11 20:48:21 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-11 20:48:21 -0800
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Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: lockdep: Avoid out of bounds array reference in save_trace() futex: Take mmap_sem for get_user_pages in fault_in_user_writeable lockstat: Add usage info to Documentation/lockstat.txt lockstat: Fix min, max times in /proc/lock_stats
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@@ -62,8 +62,20 @@ applicable).
It also tracks 4 contention points per class. A contention point is a call site
that had to wait on lock acquisition.
+ - CONFIGURATION
+
+Lock statistics are enabled via CONFIG_LOCK_STATS.
+
- USAGE
+Enable collection of statistics:
+
+# echo 1 >/proc/sys/kernel/lock_stat
+
+Disable collection of statistics:
+
+# echo 0 >/proc/sys/kernel/lock_stat
+
Look at the current lock statistics:
( line numbers not part of actual output, done for clarity in the explanation
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