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SubjectRe: [PATCH] proc: fix documentation for /proc/stat, line "intr"
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
> On 04/22/14 11:19, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> 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.)
>
> I wouldn't mind more of a changelog, but the additional text is
> certainly correct.
>
> Thanks. I'll apply the patch, but more changelog comments are welcome.

And I see now that this text could also reasonably fit into the
proc(5) man page. So I've added, with a Reviewed-by: tag for Randy.
Thanks for the text, Jan.

Cheers,

Michael


>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Moskyto Matejka <mq@suse.cz>
>>> ---
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> ~Randy



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