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+rtla-osnoise-hist(1)
+===================
+
+NAME
+----
+rtla-osnoise-hist - Display a histogram of the osnoise tracer samples
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+*rtla osnoise hist* ['OPTIONS']
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+The *rtla-osnoise-hist(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, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus
+allowing all the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise threads
+take note of the delta between each time read. Anytime the delta between two
+consecutive reads of the timer is higher than a 'threshold,' an
+*osnoise:sample_threshold* event is generated reporting the detected noise.
+
+The *rtla-osnoise-hist(1)* tool collects all *osnoise:sample_threshold*
+occurrence in a histogram, displaying the results in a user-friendly way.
+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'].
+*-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.
+
+*-b*, --bucket-size 'N'::
+Set the histogram bucket size (default 1).
+*-e*, --entries 'N'::
+Set the number of entries of the histogram (default 256).
+*--no-header*::
+Do not print header.
+*--no-summary*::
+Do not print summary.
+*--no-index*::
+Do not print index.
+*--with-zeros*::
+Print zero only entries.
+
+EXAMPLE
+-------
+In the example below, osnoise tracer threads are set to run with real-time
+priority 'FIFO:1', on CPUs '0-11', 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.' The output histogram is
+set to group outputs in buckets of '10 us' and '25' entries.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------
+[root@f34 ~/]# rtla osnoise hist -P F:1 -c 0-11 -r 900000 -d 1M -b 10 -e 25
+# RTLA osnoise histogram
+# Time unit is microseconds (us)
+# Duration: 0 00:01:00
+Index CPU-000 CPU-001 CPU-002 CPU-003 CPU-004 CPU-005 CPU-006 CPU-007 CPU-008 CPU-009 CPU-010 CPU-011
+0 42982 46287 51779 53740 52024 44817 49898 36500 50408 50128 49523 52377
+10 12224 8356 2912 878 2667 10155 4573 18894 4214 4836 5708 2413
+20 8 5 12 2 13 24 20 41 29 53 39 39
+30 1 1 0 0 10 3 6 19 15 31 30 38
+40 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 7 2 3 8 11
+50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2
+over: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
+count: 55215 54649 54703 54620 54714 55003 54499 55461 54668 55052 55309 54880
+min: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
+avg: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
+max: 30 30 20 20 30 40 40 40 40 50 50 50
+-------------------------------------------------------
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+_rtla-osnoise(1)_, _rtla-osnoise-top_(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).
Man page for rtla osnoise hist 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: John Kacur <jkacur@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> --- .../rtla/Documentation/rtla-osnoise-hist.txt | 117 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 117 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/tracing/rtla/Documentation/rtla-osnoise-hist.txt