lockstat: Add usage info to Documentation/lockstat.txt

Add usage info to Documentation/lockstat.txt

Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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Frank Rowand 2009-11-19 13:54:05 -08:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar
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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