linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] proc: fix documentation for /proc/stat, line "intr"

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2014 20:19:23 +0200
From:	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:	Jan Moskyto Matejka <mq@...e.cz>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
CC:	mtk.manpages@...il.com, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: fix documentation for /proc/stat, line "intr"

On 04/22/2014 05:29 PM, Jan Moskyto Matejka wrote:
> The sum at the beginning of line "intr" includes also unnumbered interrupts.
> It implies that the sum at the beginning isn't the sum of the remainder of the
> line, not even an estimation.
> 
> Fixed the documentation to mention that.

I'm not really doubting what you claim, Jan, but it would be really
helpful if you provided some data to support the proposed change
(Kernel source references, or notes about testing you've done, or 
pointers to mailing list threads, authoritative note that you are
the maintainer of some relevant kernel subsystem...). Do you have
something like that? (It's also useful for the change log.)

Thanks,

Michael

> Signed-off-by: Jan Moskyto Matejka <mq@...e.cz>
> ---
>  Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> index f00bee1..4e6f9d0 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> @@ -1245,8 +1245,9 @@ second).  The meanings of the columns are as follows, from left to right:
>  
>  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
> -interrupts serviced; each  subsequent column is the  total for that particular
> -interrupt.
> +interrupts serviced  including  unnumbered  architecture specific  interrupts;
> +each  subsequent column is the  total for that particular numbered interrupt.
> +Unnumbered interrupts are not shown, only summed into the total.
>  
>  The "ctxt" line gives the total number of context switches across all CPUs.
>  
> 


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/