On Tue, Sep 15 2020 at 13:36, Tom Hromatka wrote:
> Prior to this commit, the cpu idle and iowait data in /proc/stat were
> cleared when a CPU goes down. When the CPU came back online, both idle
> and iowait times were restarted from 0.
Starting a commit message with 'Prior to this commit' is
pointless. Describe the factual problem which made you come up with this
change.
>
> This commit preserves the CPU's idle and iowait values when a CPU goes
> offline and comes back online.
'This commit does' is just a variation of 'This patch does'.
git grep 'This patch' Documentation/process/
Thanks,
tglx
