Re: [resend PATCH for 3.2] procfs: do not confuse jiffies withcputime64_t

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:14:39 +0100
Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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