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

From: Laurent Vivier
Date: Tue Jan 29 2008 - 04:04:42 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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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