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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2009-09-22 02:01:06 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-22 16:17:24 +0200
commitc574358e8b48adf646f9d5ef70dc76c5d4ad9387 (patch)
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-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
since the system first booted. For a quick look, simply cat the file:
> cat /proc/stat
- cpu 2255 34 2290 22625563 6290 127 456 0
- cpu0 1132 34 1441 11311718 3675 127 438 0
- cpu1 1123 0 849 11313845 2614 0 18 0
+ cpu 2255 34 2290 22625563 6290 127 456 0 0
+ cpu0 1132 34 1441 11311718 3675 127 438 0 0
+ cpu1 1123 0 849 11313845 2614 0 18 0 0
intr 114930548 113199788 3 0 5 263 0 4 [... lots more numbers ...]
ctxt 1990473
btime 1062191376
@@ -1056,6 +1056,7 @@ second). The meanings of the columns are as follows, from left to right:
- irq: servicing interrupts
- softirq: servicing softirqs
- steal: involuntary wait
+- guest: running a guest
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