From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755601AbaEOUzh (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2014 16:55:37 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:38106 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752139AbaEOUzg (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2014 16:55:36 -0400 Message-ID: <537529C6.6010408@infradead.org> Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 13:55:34 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LKML , Linus Torvalds CC: "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , Jan Moskyto Matejka Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Documentation: update /proc/stat "intr" count summary Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jan Moskyto Matejka 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. This behaviour was added to /proc/stat in commit a2eddfa95919a730e0e5ed17e9c303fe5ba249cd. Signed-off-by: Jan Moskyto Matejka Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap --- Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- lnx-315-rc2.orig/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ lnx-315-rc2/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1245,8 +1245,9 @@ second). The meanings of the columns ar 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.