[PATCH] documentation: Add desc of new cpu fields in /proc/stat

From: AP
Date: Tue Jan 29 2008 - 04:14:38 EST


Today I noticed that a new field cropped up in /proc/stat. The git patch
that made it is 5e84cfde51cf303d368fcb48f22059f37b3872de. I hope the
following description is adequately accurate. I tried to keep it short.

Signed-Off-By: Andrew P <ap@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff -aur linux/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt work/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
--- linux/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt 2008-01-29 11:27:18.000000000 +1100
+++ work/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt 2008-01-29 11:37:41.000000000 +1100
@@ -813,9 +813,9 @@
since the system first booted. For a quick look, simply cat the file:

> cat /proc/stat
- cpu 2255 34 2290 22625563 6290 127 456 0
- cpu0 1132 34 1441 11311718 3675 127 438 0
- cpu1 1123 0 849 11313845 2614 0 18 0
+ cpu 2255 34 2290 22625563 6290 127 456 0 0
+ cpu0 1132 34 1441 11311718 3675 127 438 0 0
+ cpu1 1123 0 849 11313845 2614 0 18 0 0
intr 114930548 113199788 3 0 5 263 0 4 [... lots more numbers ...]
ctxt 1990473
btime 1062191376
@@ -836,6 +836,7 @@
- irq: servicing interrupts
- softirq: servicing softirqs
- steal: involuntary wait
+- guest: time used to run a virtual CPU

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

--
Andrew
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