From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758835AbYADIxq (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 03:53:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754202AbYADIxj (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 03:53:39 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:49681 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754126AbYADIxi (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 03:53:38 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 09:53:28 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Andi Kleen Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH x86] [2/16] Add a counter for per cpu clocksource watchdog checks and report them in /proc/interrupts Message-ID: <20080104085327.GB28740@elte.hu> References: <20080103442.621670000@suse.de> <20080103154215.C793314DDB@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080103154215.C793314DDB@wotan.suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0010] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Andi Kleen wrote: > While infrequent it's better if all per CPU events have a counter. > > Only done for x86 currently. while i agree with exposing this counter, /proc/interrupts is the wrong place for this - please add it to /proc/timer_list instead, that's where we put all the time related debug info - it already has per cpu printout sections. And that way it's much simpler as well. (no need to modify all the architectures) Ingo