Re: [resend PATCH for 3.2] procfs: do not confuse jiffies with cputime64_t

From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Wed Dec 21 2011 - 18:50:16 EST


Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: procfs: do not confuse jiffies with cputime64_t
>
> get_{idle,iowait}_time are supposed to return cputime64_t values, not
> jiffies. Add usecs_to_cputime64 for this.

For most architectures (which use the asm-generic/cputime.h) jiffies use
the same unit as cputime64_t values, but ia64, powerpc and s390 make
them different.

Andreas.

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