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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2009-09-21 20:01:06 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-22 10:17:24 -0400
commitc574358e8b48adf646f9d5ef70dc76c5d4ad9387 (patch)
tree1c83f7fe3831c59ba0ceca9b384ec990fcf60e5a
parent580be0837a7a59b207c3d5c661d044d8dd0a6a30 (diff)
proc: document `guest' column in /proc/stat
We added a new column in cpuX lines of /proc/stat, to show the amount of time spent by a cpu servicing a guest, without updating Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index ffead13f9443..1c96cb6c7972 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -1032,9 +1032,9 @@ Various pieces of information about kernel activity are available in the
1032since the system first booted. For a quick look, simply cat the file: 1032since the system first booted. For a quick look, simply cat the file:
1033 1033
1034 > cat /proc/stat 1034 > cat /proc/stat
1035 cpu 2255 34 2290 22625563 6290 127 456 0 1035 cpu 2255 34 2290 22625563 6290 127 456 0 0
1036 cpu0 1132 34 1441 11311718 3675 127 438 0 1036 cpu0 1132 34 1441 11311718 3675 127 438 0 0
1037 cpu1 1123 0 849 11313845 2614 0 18 0 1037 cpu1 1123 0 849 11313845 2614 0 18 0 0
1038 intr 114930548 113199788 3 0 5 263 0 4 [... lots more numbers ...] 1038 intr 114930548 113199788 3 0 5 263 0 4 [... lots more numbers ...]
1039 ctxt 1990473 1039 ctxt 1990473
1040 btime 1062191376 1040 btime 1062191376
@@ -1056,6 +1056,7 @@ second). The meanings of the columns are as follows, from left to right:
1056- irq: servicing interrupts 1056- irq: servicing interrupts
1057- softirq: servicing softirqs 1057- softirq: servicing softirqs
1058- steal: involuntary wait 1058- steal: involuntary wait
1059- guest: running a guest
1059 1060
1060The "intr" line gives counts of interrupts serviced since boot time, for each 1061The "intr" line gives counts of interrupts serviced since boot time, for each
1061of the possible system interrupts. The first column is the total of all 1062of the possible system interrupts. The first column is the total of all