Re: [PATCH 2.6.25-rc3] cpuidle: fix cpuidle time and usage overflow

[Ingo Molnar]

* Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> cpuidle C-state sysfs node time and usage are very easy to overflow 
> because they are all of unsigned int type, time will overflow within 
> about two hours, usage will take longer time to overflow, but they are 
> increasing for ever.
> 
> This patch will convert them to unsigned long long.

what happens if such an overflow happens - any particular regression or 
other misbehavior, or just funny looking stats in sysfs?

	Ingo
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