[Crash-utility] [PATCH] timers: add option to show expired timers only

[Dave Anderson]

----- Original Message -----
> Hi.
> 
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 03:39:18PM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote:
> > This makes the output somewhat sparse, ugly, and hard to read, no?
> 
> In a way that there are might be empty CPUs? If so, yes, I agree.
> 
> > I'm wondering if it would be more readable if you just recognize the
> > expired entries, and maybe display something like "[EXPIRED]" at the
> > end of the expired entry's line?  It wouldn't even require the "-e",
> > but just have it do it all the time.
> 
> Bringing this idea forward and combining with my next planned steps, I'd
> suggest just adding another column, which would show the diff in time
> between the clock and the timer expiration, preferably, in a
> human-readable format (converted to seconds). Expired entries would go
> with "-" sign.
> 
> What do you think?

Sound reasonable --  let's see what it looks like.

Thanks,
 Dave

> 
> --
>   Best regards,
>     Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum)
>     Senior Software Maintenance Engineer
>