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[V2,15/19] rtla: Add rtla osnoise top documentation

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Series RTLA: An interface for osnoise/timerlat tracers | expand

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Daniel Bristot de Oliveira Oct. 11, 2021, 2:36 p.m. UTC
Man page for rtla osnoise top mode.

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
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+rtla-osnoise-top(1)
+===================
+
+NAME
+----
+rtla-osnoise-top - Display a summary of the operating system noise
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+*rtla osnoise top* ['OPTIONS']
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+The rtla-osnoise-top(1) tool is an interface for the osnoise tracer. The
+osnoise tracer dispatches a kernel thread per-cpu. These threads read the
+time in a loop while with preemption, softirq and IRQs enabled, thus
+allowing all the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise's
+tracer threads take note of the delta between each time read, along with
+an interference counter for each source of interference. At the end of
+each period, the osnoise tracer displays a summary of the results.
+
+*rtla osnoise top* collects the periodic summary from the osnoise tracer,
+including the counters of the occurrence of the interference source,
+displaying the results in a user-friendly format.
+
+The tool also allows many configurations of the osnoise tracer and the
+collection of the tracer output.
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+*-h*, *--help*::
+Print help menu.
+*-p*, *--period* 'us'::
+Set the osnoise tracer period in microseconds.
+*-r*, *--runtime* 'us'::
+Set the osnoise tracer runtime in microseconds.
+*-s*, *--stop* 'us'::
+Stop the trace if a single sample is higher than the argument in microseconds.
+If -T is set, it will also save the trace to the output.
+*-S*, *--stop-total* 'us'::
+Stop the trace if the total sample is higher than the argument in microseconds.
+If -T is set, it will also save the trace to the output.
+*-c*, *--cpus* 'cpu-list'::
+Set the osnoise tracer to run the sample threads in the cpu-list.
+*-d*, *--duration* 'time[s|m|h|d]'::
+Set the duration of the session.
+*-t*, *--trace*['=file']::
+Save the stopped trace to ['file|osnoise_trace.txt'].
+*-q*, *--quiet*::
+Print only a summary at the end of the session.
+*-P*, *--priority* 'o:prio|r:prio|f:prio|d:runtime:period'::
+Set scheduling parameters to the osnoise tracer threads, the format to set the priority are:
+  - 'o:prio' - use SCHED_OTHER with 'prio';
+  - 'r:prio' - use SCHED_RR with 'prio';
+  - 'f:prio' - use SCHED_FIFO with 'prio';
+  - 'd:runtime[us|ms|s]:period[us|ms|s]' - use SCHED_DEADLINE with 'runtime' and 'period' in nanoseconds.
+
+EXAMPLE
+-------
+In the example below, the rtla osnoise top tool is set to run with a
+real-time priority 'FIFO:1', on CPUs '0-3', for '900ms' at each period
+('1s' by default). The reason for reducing the runtime is to avoid starving
+the rtla tool. The tool is also set to run for 'one minute' and to display
+a summary of the report at the end of the session.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------
+[root@f34 ~]# rtla osnoise top -P F:1 -c 0-3 -r 900000 -d 1M -q
+                                          Operating System Noise
+duration:   0 00:01:00 | time is in us
+CPU Period       Runtime        Noise  % CPU Aval   Max Noise   Max Single          HW          NMI          IRQ      Softirq       Thread
+  0 #59         53100000       304896    99.42580        6978           56         549            0        53111         1590           13
+  1 #59         53100000       338339    99.36282        8092           24         399            0        53130         1448           31
+  2 #59         53100000       290842    99.45227        6582           39         855            0        53110         1406           12
+  3 #59         53100000       204935    99.61405        6251           33         290            0        53156         1460           12
+-------------------------------------------------------
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+_rtla-osnoise(1)_, _rtla-osnoise-hist_(1)
+
+Osnoise tracer documentation: <https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/trace/osnoise-tracer.html>
+
+AUTHOR
+------
+Written by Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
+
+REPORTING BUGS
+--------------
+Report bugs to <lkml@vger.kernel.org>
+
+LICENSE
+-------
+rtla is Free Software licensed under the GNU GPLv2
+
+COPYING
+-------
+Copyright \(C) 2021 Red Hat, Inc. Free use of this software is granted under
+the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).