Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:56:24 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [resend PATCH for 3.2] procfs: do not confuse jiffies with cputime64_t |
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On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:50:06 +0100 Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes: > > > From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> > > 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. >
OK, but
a) what effect does this problem have upon users of the kernel?
b) which kernel version(s) are affected?
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