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122 122
123However, maintaining per-process, in addition to per-task stats, within the 123However, maintaining per-process, in addition to per-task stats, within the
124kernel has space and time overheads. To address this, the taskstats code 124kernel has space and time overheads. To address this, the taskstats code
125accumalates each exiting task's statistics into a process-wide data structure. 125accumulates each exiting task's statistics into a process-wide data structure.
126When the last task of a process exits, the process level data accumalated also 126When the last task of a process exits, the process level data accumulated also
127gets sent to userspace (along with the per-task data). 127gets sent to userspace (along with the per-task data).
128 128
129When a user queries to get per-tgid data, the sum of all other live threads in 129When a user queries to get per-tgid data, the sum of all other live threads in
130the group is added up and added to the accumalated total for previously exited 130the group is added up and added to the accumulated total for previously exited
131threads of the same thread group. 131threads of the same thread group.
132 132
133Extending taskstats 133Extending taskstats