Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:19:44 -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 01:14:39 +0100 Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > a) what effect does this problem have upon users of the kernel? > > get_idle_time returns the value in the wrong unit.
So the "idle" fields in /proc/stat are wrong.
We're getting there! Now, in what way are they wrong? How could a kernel maintainer recognise that this patch is needed?
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