Re: [patch 1/14] s390: statistics infrastructure.

Christoph Hellwig
2005-10-28T18:08:08Z

On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 04:06:17PM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> From: Martin Peschke <mpeschke@de.ibm.com>
>
> [patch 1/14] s390: statistics infrastructure.
>
> Add the statistics facility. This features offers a simple way to
> gather statistical data and to display them via the debugfs.
> An example how this is used:
>
> struct statistic_interface *stat_if;
> struct statistic *stat;
>
> statistic_interface_create(&stat_if, "whatever");
> statistic_create(&stat, stat_if, "stat-name", "unit");
> statistic_define_value(stat, range_min, range_max, def_mode);
> ...
> statistic_inc(stat, value); /* repeat.. */
> ...
> statistic_interface_remove(&stat_if);

This certainly doesn't belong into arch code. Please move to common
code and send over to lkml for detailed review.