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

From: AP
Date: Tue Jan 29 2008 - 05:40:39 EST


On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:05:16AM +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> good thing, but could you update too "Table 1-3: Contents of the stat
> files" with fields added by 9ac52315d4cf5f561f36dabaf0720c00d3553162 .

Ok. Whilst in hiding from the grammar nazis, attempt #2 follows:

This patch syncs up the documentation for /proc/stat and /proc/<pid>/stat
with that of the changes made in 5e84cfde51cf303d368fcb48f22059f37b3872de
and 9ac52315d4cf5f561f36dabaf0720c00d3553162 respectively.

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 21:30:59.000000000 +1100
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@
..............................................................................


-Table 1-3: Contents of the stat files (as of 2.6.22-rc3)
+Table 1-3: Contents of the stat files (as of 2.6.24)
..............................................................................
Field Content
pid process id
@@ -237,6 +237,8 @@
rt_priority realtime priority
policy scheduling policy (man sched_setscheduler)
blkio_ticks time spent waiting for block IO
+ gtime guest (virtual CPU) CPU time in jiffies
+ cgtime guests' children's CPU time in jiffies
..............................................................................


@@ -813,9 +815,9 @@
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 +838,7 @@
- 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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