linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] documentation: Add desc of new cpu fields in /proc/stat

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Message-Id: <1201597516.4309.4.camel@frecb07144>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:05:16 +0100
From:	Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@...l.net>
To:	AP <ap@....com.au>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, avi@...ranet.com, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] documentation: Add desc of new cpu fields in /proc/stat

Hi,

good thing, but could you update too "Table 1-3: Contents of the stat
files" with fields added by 9ac52315d4cf5f561f36dabaf0720c00d3553162 .

Thank you,
Laurent

On mar, 2008-01-29 at 19:43 +1100, AP wrote:
> Today I noticed that a new field cropped up in /proc/stat. The git patch
> that made it is 5e84cfde51cf303d368fcb48f22059f37b3872de. I hope the
> following description is adequately accurate. I tried to keep it short.
> 
> Signed-Off-By: Andrew P <ap@....com.au>
> 
> diff -aur linux/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt work/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> --- linux/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt	2008-01-29 11:27:18.000000000 +1100
> +++ work/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt	2008-01-29 11:37:41.000000000 +1100
> @@ -813,9 +813,9 @@
>  since the system first booted.  For a quick look, simply cat the file:
>  
>    > cat /proc/stat
> -  cpu  2255 34 2290 22625563 6290 127 456 0
> -  cpu0 1132 34 1441 11311718 3675 127 438 0
> -  cpu1 1123 0 849 11313845 2614 0 18 0
> +  cpu  2255 34 2290 22625563 6290 127 456 0 0
> +  cpu0 1132 34 1441 11311718 3675 127 438 0 0
> +  cpu1 1123 0 849 11313845 2614 0 18 0 0
>    intr 114930548 113199788 3 0 5 263 0 4 [... lots more numbers ...]
>    ctxt 1990473
>    btime 1062191376
> @@ -836,6 +836,7 @@
>  - irq: servicing interrupts
>  - softirq: servicing softirqs
>  - steal: involuntary wait
> +- guest: time used to run a virtual CPU
>  
>  The "intr" line gives counts of interrupts  serviced since boot time, for each
>  of the  possible system interrupts.   The first  column  is the  total of  all
> 
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