[V5,18/20] rtla: Add rtla timerlat documentation

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Daniel Bristot de Oliveira Oct. 25, 2021, 5:40 p.m. UTC

Man page for rtla timerlat tool.

Cc: Steven Rostedt <[e-mail]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[e-mail]>
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Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[e-mail]>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[e-mail]>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <[e-mail]>
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Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <[e-mail]>
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 Documentation/tools/rtla/rtla-timerlat.rst    | 57 +++++++++++++++++++
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+The **rtla timerlat** tool is an interface for the *timerlat* tracer. The
+*timerlat* tracer dispatches a kernel thread per-cpu. These threads
+set a periodic timer to wake themselves up and go back to sleep. After
+the wakeup, they collect and generate useful information for the
+debugging of operating system timer latency.
+
+The *timerlat* tracer outputs information in two ways. It periodically
+prints the timer latency at the timer *IRQ* handler and the *Thread*
+handler. It also enable the trace of the most relevant information via
+**osnoise:** tracepoints.
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+================
+rtla-timerlat
+================
+-------------------------------------------
+Measures the operating system timer latency
+-------------------------------------------
+
+:Manual section: 1
+
+SYNOPSIS
+========
+**rtla timerlat** [*MODE*] ...
+
+DESCRIPTION
+===========
+
+.. include:: common_timerlat_description.rst
+
+The *timerlat* tracer outputs information in two ways. It periodically
+prints the timer latency at the timer *IRQ* handler and the *Thread* handler.
+It also provides information for each noise via the **osnoise:** tracepoints.
+The **rtla timerlat top** mode displays a summary of the periodic output
+from the *timerlat* tracer. The **rtla hist hist** mode displays a histogram
+of each tracer event occurrence. For further details, please refer to the
+respective man page.
+
+MODES
+=====
+**top**
+
+        Prints the summary from *timerlat* tracer.
+
+**hist**
+
+        Prints a histogram of timerlat samples.
+
+If no *MODE* is given, the top mode is called, passing the arguments.
+
+OPTIONS
+=======
+**-h**, **--help**
+
+        Display the help text.
+
+For other options, see the man page for the corresponding mode.
+
+SEE ALSO
+========
+**rtla-timerlat-top**\(1), **rtla-timerlat-hist**\(1)
+
+*timerlat* tracer documentation: <https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/trace/timerlat-tracer.html>
+
+AUTHOR
+======
+Written by Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <[e-mail]>
+
+.. include:: common_appendix.rst