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. Signed-off-by: Jan Moskyto Matejka <mq@xxxxxxx> --- 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. -- 1.8.4.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
