Re: [PATCH 2/4] nohz: Synchronize sleep time stats with seqlock

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 06:54:00PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 08/16, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> >
> > This fixes a reported bug where non-monotonic sleeptime stats are returned by /proc/stat
> > when it is frequently read.
> 
> Plus it fixes the problems with 32bit machines reading u64 values.

Ah indeed.

> 
> But perhaps the changelog should mention other races we discussed.

Agreed, I'll detail that.

thanks.

> 
> Oleg.
> 
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