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+The **rtla timerlat** tool is an interface for the *timerlat* tracer. The
+*timerlat* tracer dispatches a kernel thread per-cpu. These threads
+set a periodic timer to wake themselves up and go back to sleep. After
+the wakeup, they collect and generate useful information for the
+debugging of operating system timer latency.
+
+The *timerlat* tracer outputs information in two ways. It periodically
+prints the timer latency at the timer *IRQ* handler and the *Thread*
+handler. It also enable the trace of the most relevant information via
+**osnoise:** tracepoints.