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

From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2014 - 14:19:43 EST


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@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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.
>
>


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