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lockstat: Add documentation on contention and contenting points

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Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Daniel Wagner 2015-01-13 15:59:30 +01:00 committed by Jonathan Corbet
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Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
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@ -121,6 +121,11 @@ show the header with column descriptions. Lines 05-18 and 20-31 show the actual
statistics. These statistics come in two parts; the actual stats separated by a
short separator (line 08, 13) from the contention points.
Lines 09-12 show the first 4 recorded contention points (the code
which tries to get the lock) and lines 14-17 show the first 4 recorded
contended points (the lock holder). It is possible that the max
con-bounces point is missing in the statistics.
The first lock (05-18) is a read/write lock, and shows two lines above the
short separator. The contention points don't match the column descriptors,
they have two: contentions and [<IP>] symbol. The second set of contention