Re: /proc/stat's intr field looks odd, although /proc/interruptsseems correct

From: Robert Love
Date: Sun Aug 10 2003 - 23:17:41 EST


On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 20:48, Randy.Dunlap wrote:

> Yes, for most architectures, it prints interrupts from 0 thru NR_IRQS:
> for (i = 0 ; i < NR_IRQS ; i++)
> len += sprintf(page + len, " %u", kstat_irqs(i));
> and NR_IRQS varies depending on the kernel build options, but (for x86)
> is usually either 16 or 224.

Eww. So I guess on SMP, it is 224.

Might be nice to only print lines that are registered, like
/proc/interrupts. But then you have no way of knowing which field is
which interrupt line. Ugh.

How can we expect anything to parse that line?

Robert Love


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