linux-kernel - Re: minor doc correction: Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference

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Date:	Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:08:56 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Linda Walsh <lkml@...nx.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, axboe@...nel.dk
Subject: Re: minor doc correction: Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size
 reference

On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:41:28 -0700 Linda Walsh wrote:

> 
> 
> Documentation/iostats.txt describes fields in /proc/diskstats as
> 32-bit unsigned values that can wrap.
> 
> On a 64-bit system, it appears they are 64-bit unsigned values.
> 
> Should 'iostats.txt' describe fields as "unsigned, native-word-sized 
> values" or is my 64-bit system not behaving according to "spec"? ;-)

They are "unsigned long", so yes, that is basically your native-word-sized
values.  That text file was written in 2003 or earlier, so things have changed
a bit (or several bits) since then.

thanks.
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~Randy
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