From 163ecdff060f2fa9e8f5238882fd0137493556a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shailabh Nagar Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 03:03:11 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] delay accounting: temporarily enable by default Enable delay accounting by default so that feature gets coverage testing without requiring special measures. Earlier, it was off by default and had to be enabled via a boot time param. This patch reverses the default behaviour to improve coverage testing. It can be removed late in the kernel development cycle if its believed users shouldn't have to incur any cost if they don't want delay accounting. Or it can be retained forever if the utility of the stats is deemed common enough to warrant keeping the feature on. Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt | 10 ++++++---- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt b/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt index be215e58423..1443cd71d26 100644 --- a/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt +++ b/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt @@ -64,11 +64,13 @@ Compile the kernel with CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT=y CONFIG_TASKSTATS=y -Enable the accounting at boot time by adding -the following to the kernel boot options - delayacct +Delay accounting is enabled by default at boot up. +To disable, add + nodelayacct +to the kernel boot options. The rest of the instructions +below assume this has not been done. -and after the system has booted up, use a utility +After the system has booted up, use a utility similar to getdelays.c to access the delays seen by a given task or a task group (tgid). The utility also allows a given command to be diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index e11f7728ec6..b50595a0550 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -448,8 +448,6 @@ running once the system is up. Format: [,] See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. - delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting - dhash_entries= [KNL] Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. @@ -1031,6 +1029,8 @@ running once the system is up. nocache [ARM] + nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting + nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects. noexec [IA-64] -- cgit v1.2.3