On 04/22/14 11:19, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > On 04/22/2014 05:29 PM, Jan Moskyto Matejka wrote: >> The sum at the beginning of line "intr" includes also unnumbered interrupts. >> It implies that the sum at the beginning isn't the sum of the remainder of >> the >> line, not even an estimation. >> >> Fixed the documentation to mention that. > > I'm not really doubting what you claim, Jan, but it would be really > helpful if you provided some data to support the proposed change > (Kernel source references, or notes about testing you've done, or > pointers to mailing list threads, authoritative note that you are > the maintainer of some relevant kernel subsystem...). Do you have > something like that? (It's also useful for the change log.)
I wouldn't mind more of a changelog, but the additional text is certainly correct. Thanks. I'll apply the patch, but more changelog comments are welcome. > Thanks, > > Michael > >> Signed-off-by: Jan Moskyto Matejka <m...@suse.cz> >> --- >> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 5 +++-- >> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt >> b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt >> index f00bee1..4e6f9d0 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt >> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt >> @@ -1245,8 +1245,9 @@ second). The meanings of the columns are as follows, >> from left to right: >> >> 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 >> -interrupts serviced; each subsequent column is the total for that >> particular >> -interrupt. >> +interrupts serviced including unnumbered architecture specific >> interrupts; >> +each subsequent column is the total for that particular numbered >> interrupt. >> +Unnumbered interrupts are not shown, only summed into the total. >> >> The "ctxt" line gives the total number of context switches across all CPUs. >> >> > > -- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
