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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:58:29 -0400
From: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu,
       rostedt@goodmis.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/1] Hardware Latency Detector (formerly SMI detector)
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Hi folks,

Please find attached my second re-write of the SMI detector, now called the
Hardware Latency Detector. This is a loadable module that grabs the CPU for
configurable periods of time (all under stop_machine()) and samples the TSC
looking for discontinuity. If observed latencies exceed a threshold (for
example caused by an System Management Interrupt or similar) then the
event is recorded in a global ring_buffer, readable via debugfs.

The previous version was too x86-centric, since there is no reason one could
not also use this newly renamed hwlat_detector on any supported platform with
some kind of underlying firmware/virtualization issues effecting observable
system latency measurements.

Thanks to akpm and others for feedback comments so far.

Changes since the previous version:

- Renamed to hwlat_detector
- Followed Andrew's cleanup advice
- Rewritten the documentation

Jon.
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