On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. And I see now that this text could also reasonably fit into the proc(5) man page. So I've added, with a Reviewed-by: tag for Randy. Thanks for the text, Jan. Cheers, Michael >>> 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. >>> >>> >> >> > > > -- > ~Randy -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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
