Re: [PATCH v0.3] timer stats: add a 'status' line to timer usagestatistics

[Dong Zhu]

> > Agree, I modified this patch and resubmited it again, Could you help
> > reviewing it again ? Thanks !
> > 
> > From 263c40abea8011c82582b2d671ae783b26f44bd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Dong Zhu <bluezhudong@xxxxxxxxx> 
> > Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 13:46:08 +0800
> > 
> > We can enable|disable timer statistics collection (via echo [1|0] >
> > /proc/timers_stats), this patch adds a 'status' line to display the
> > current timer collection status.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dong Zhu <bluezhudong@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  kernel/time/timer_stats.c | 4 ++++
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/time/timer_stats.c b/kernel/time/timer_stats.c
> > index 0b537f2..bac5e91 100644
> > --- a/kernel/time/timer_stats.c
> > +++ b/kernel/time/timer_stats.c
> > @@ -303,6 +303,10 @@ static int tstats_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
> >  	if (atomic_read(&overflow_count))
> >  		seq_printf(m, "Overflow: %d entries\n",
> >  			atomic_read(&overflow_count));
> > +	if (timer_stats_active)
> > +		seq_puts(m, "Status: collection active\n");
> > +	else
> > +		seq_puts(m, "Status: collection disabled\n");
> 
> I suspect we could do something like:
> 
> 	seq_printf("Status: collection %s\n", timer_stats_active ? "enabled" : "disabled");
> 
> and save a bit of kernel image size?
> 
> Also, please bump up the version to v0.3, to give parsers a chance.
> 
> Otherwise it looks good to me.
> 
Thanks for your comments, I refined this patch as below: