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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/4] nohz: Synchronize sleep time stats with seqlock
    On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 06:54:00PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
    > On 08/16, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
    > >
    > > This fixes a reported bug where non-monotonic sleeptime stats are returned by /proc/stat
    > > when it is frequently read.
    >
    > Plus it fixes the problems with 32bit machines reading u64 values.

    Ah indeed.

    >
    > But perhaps the changelog should mention other races we discussed.

    Agreed, I'll detail that.

    thanks.

    >
    > Oleg.
    >


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