Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Aug 2013 23:40:30 +0200 | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/4] nohz: Synchronize sleep time stats with seqlock |
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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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