linux-kernel - [patch] timer_stats, doc: Readout of /proc/timer

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Date:	Fri, 02 May 2014 11:29:01 +0200
From:	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	mtk.manpages@...il.com, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [patch] timer_stats, doc: Readout of /proc/timer_stats doesn't disable
 sampling

From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>

Some simple testing shows that reading from /proc/timer_stats
does not disable sampling. Looking back over past source code,
it appears that it never did.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>


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