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When debugging/detecting outlier commit stalls, having an indicator that we are currently in a long commit critical section can be very useful. Extend the commit_stats sysfs file to also include the current commit critical section duration. Since this requires storing the last commit start time, use that rather than a separate stack variable for storing the finished commit durations as well. This also requires slightly moving up the timing of the stats updating to *inside* the critical section to avoid the transaction T+1 setting the critical_section_start_time to 0 before transaction T can update its stats, which would trigger the new ASSERT. This is an improvement in and of itself, as it makes the stats more accurately represent the true critical section time. It may be yet better to pull the stats up to where start_transaction gets unblocked, rather than the next commit, but this seems like a good enough place as well. Signed-off-by: Boris Burkov <boris@bur.io> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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