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Date:	Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:12:41 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lockstat: documentation update


* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> Christoph noted that the documentation doesn't tell in what unit the
> lockstat times are reported, ammend this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>

applied the commit below to tip/core/locking, thanks!

	Ingo

------------->
>From cdad72207d164569cb4bf647eb824a7f93e8d388 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:00:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] lockstat: documentation update

Christoph noted that the documentation doesn't tell in what unit the
lockstat times are reported, ammend this.

Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 Documentation/lockstat.txt |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/lockstat.txt b/Documentation/lockstat.txt
index 4ba4664..02f36f5 100644
--- a/Documentation/lockstat.txt
+++ b/Documentation/lockstat.txt
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ The first lock (05-10) 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 integer part of the time values is in us.
 
 View the top contending locks:
 
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