Re: [PATCH 05/12] time: Add debugging checks to warn if we see delays

From: Paul Bolle
Date: Sat Mar 07 2015 - 04:22:47 EST


On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 18:49 -0800, John Stultz wrote:
> +config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
> + bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
> + help
> + This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
> + which may be helpful when diagnoising issues where timekeeping

diagnoise, verb:
to diagnose a problem by generating a large amount of data
see also: printk debugging

> + problems are suspected.
> +
> + This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
> + option may have a performance impact to some workloads.
> +
> + If unsure, say N.
> +



Paul Bolle

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