Martin Kennelly observes that even though this data is available to
humans via the journal/log files, these aren't exactly easy for a
developer to make any kind of behavioral inferences.  This kind of
log and counter would be useful when checking on system health to
let us know that an Open vSwitch component is noticing some kind of
system level hiccup.

Add a new coverage counter to track information on these events, and
let a developer or system engineer know how long these events have
occurred with some historical context.

Reported-at: 
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/2023-June/052523.html
Suggested-by: Martin Kennelly <[email protected]>
Co-Authored-By: Aaron Conole <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
---
 v2: Updated commit message, based on similar patch upstream.

 lib/timeval.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/timeval.c b/lib/timeval.c
index 193c7bab1..0abe7e555 100644
--- a/lib/timeval.c
+++ b/lib/timeval.c
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@
 
 VLOG_DEFINE_THIS_MODULE(timeval);
 
+COVERAGE_DEFINE(long_poll_interval);
+
 #if !defined(HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME)
 typedef unsigned int clockid_t;
 static int clock_gettime(clock_t id, struct timespec *ts);
@@ -644,6 +646,8 @@ log_poll_interval(long long int last_wakeup)
         const struct rusage *last_rusage = get_recent_rusage();
         struct rusage rusage;
 
+        COVERAGE_INC(long_poll_interval);
+
         if (!getrusage_thread(&rusage)) {
             VLOG_WARN("Unreasonably long %lldms poll interval"
                       " (%lldms user, %lldms system)",
-- 
2.43.0

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