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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2014-05-02 12:13:10 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-05-04 20:46:32 +0200
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timer_stats/doc: Fix /proc/timer_stats documentation
Documentation/timers/timer_stats.txt claims: "The readout of /proc/timer_stats automatically disables sampling. The sampled information is kept until a new sample period is started. This allows multiple readouts." Some simple testing shows that reading from /proc/timer_stats does not disable sampling. Looking back over past source code, it appears that it never did. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/53636FB6.9060407@gmail.com [ Small tidyup of the changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/timers/timer_stats.txt b/Documentation/timers/timer_stats.txt
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@@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ To stop a sample period issue:
The statistics can be retrieved by:
# cat /proc/timer_stats
-The readout of /proc/timer_stats automatically disables sampling. The sampled
-information is kept until a new sample period is started. This allows multiple
-readouts.
+While sampling is enabled, each readout from /proc/timer_stats will see
+newly updated statistics. Once sampling is disabled, the sampled information
+is kept until a new sample period is started. This allows multiple readouts.
Sample output of /proc/timer_stats: