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Documentation: Add tools/rtla timerlat -u option documentation
Add the -u/--user-thread option documentation for timerlat top/hist. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/bf727c8ccb8f50792200ae620141e047edf4af7a.1686066600.git.bristot@kernel.org Cc: William White <[email protected]> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> Tested-by: Juri Lelli <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>
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Documentation/tools/rtla/common_timerlat_options.rst

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Set the /dev/cpu_dma_latency to *us*, aiming to bound exit from idle latencies.
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*cyclictest* sets this value to *0* by default, use **--dma-latency** *0* to have
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similar results.
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**-u**, **--user-threads**
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Set timerlat to run without a workload, and then dispatches user-space workloads
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to wait on the timerlat_fd. Once the workload is awakes, it goes to sleep again
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adding so the measurement for the kernel-to-user and user-to-kernel to the tracer
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output.

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