| Message ID | 20220302161122.3984304-1-uuuuuu@protonmail.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | New, archived |
| Headers | show |
| Series | docs: proc.rst: fix wrong time unit | expand |
YI <afctgo@gmail.com> writes: > From: YI <afctgo@gmail.com> > > Dear Trivial Patch Monkey, The trivial patch monkey has gone into retirement, I'm as close as you're going to get. > This commit fixes a small documentaion problem reported in > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194593. > > Some fields in the file /proc/$pid/stat represent time. > Their units are clock_t, not jiffies as stated in the documentation. > This commit fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194593. We certainly don't need to give the bugzilla URL twice; I'm not convinced it's needed even once. The changelog should just say what the patch does, please. Also, "clock_t" isn't really a unit type; what are the actual units of the field? > Reported-by: hujunjie This isn't a valid reported-by line > Signed-off-by: YI <afctgo@gmail.com> ...and the signoff need to have your full name, please. Thanks, jon
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index 061744c436d9..433ad4623630 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst @@ -340,10 +340,10 @@ It's slow but very precise. cmin_flt number of minor faults with child's maj_flt number of major faults cmaj_flt number of major faults with child's - utime user mode jiffies - stime kernel mode jiffies - cutime user mode jiffies with child's - cstime kernel mode jiffies with child's + utime user mode processor time (clock_t) + stime kernel mode processor time (clock_t) + cutime user mode processor time (clock_t) with child's + cstime kernel mode processor time (clock_t) with child's priority priority level nice nice level num_threads number of threads @@ -370,8 +370,8 @@ It's slow but very precise. rt_priority realtime priority policy scheduling policy (man sched_setscheduler) blkio_ticks time spent waiting for block IO - gtime guest time of the task in jiffies - cgtime guest time of the task children in jiffies + gtime guest time of the task in processor time (clock_t) + cgtime guest time of the task children in processor time (clock_t) start_data address above which program data+bss is placed end_data address below which program data+bss is placed start_brk address above which program heap can be expanded with brk()