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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 15:02:02 +0100 From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> To: Martin Steigerwald <martin@...htvoll.de> Cc: Martin Steigerwald <martin.steigerwald@...mix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>, Jay Lan <jlan@...r.sgi.com>, Gerlof Langeveld <gerlof.langeveld@...ptool.nl>, Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@...schlus.de>, bsingharora@...il.com Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] Two issues that prevent process accounting (taskstats) from working correctly On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 02:50:25PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Montag, 19. Dezember 2016, 14:19:11 CET schrieb Peter Zijlstra: > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 01:06:00PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > Hello Ingo, Peter, Nicolas, Andrew, Balbir, Shailabh, Jay, Gerlof and > > > Marc, > > > > > > starting from a Debian bug report of mine, Gerlof Langeveld, developer of > > > system and process monitor atop¹, found two issues with process > > > accounting. > > > > While $subject says regression the rest of the email completely fails to > > mentions if this ever worked, and if so, against what version. > > Sorry for not mentioning it here. With kernel 3.16 process accounting worked > nicely. We do not have any data on the exact kernel version where it started > to fail. I do see these issues since quite a while, but I was never sure > whether it was an issue in atop or the kernel and I do not recall on what > exact combination of atop + kernel version it failed to work. > > As an additional notice: The mail addresses of Balbir and Shailabh which I got > from source code annotations of taskstats.c and getdelays.c do not work > anymore. Right, Balbir is back with IBM and working on Linux again, but under a different email address (and on a different continent). I've amended his address and bounced him the initial email.
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