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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/accounting')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt | 10 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c index b11792abd6b..bf2b0e2f87e 100644 --- a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c +++ b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ __u64 stime, utime; } /* Maximum size of response requested or message sent */ -#define MAX_MSG_SIZE 256 +#define MAX_MSG_SIZE 1024 /* Maximum number of cpus expected to be specified in a cpumask */ #define MAX_CPUS 32 /* Maximum length of pathname to log file */ diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt index 92ebf29e904..ff06b738bb8 100644 --- a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt +++ b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt @@ -96,9 +96,9 @@ a) TASKSTATS_TYPE_AGGR_PID/TGID : attribute containing no payload but indicates a pid/tgid will be followed by some stats. b) TASKSTATS_TYPE_PID/TGID: attribute whose payload is the pid/tgid whose stats -is being returned. +are being returned. -c) TASKSTATS_TYPE_STATS: attribute with a struct taskstsats as payload. The +c) TASKSTATS_TYPE_STATS: attribute with a struct taskstats as payload. The same structure is used for both per-pid and per-tgid stats. 3. New message sent by kernel whenever a task exits. The payload consists of a @@ -122,12 +122,12 @@ of atomicity). However, maintaining per-process, in addition to per-task stats, within the kernel has space and time overheads. To address this, the taskstats code -accumalates each exiting task's statistics into a process-wide data structure. -When the last task of a process exits, the process level data accumalated also +accumulates each exiting task's statistics into a process-wide data structure. +When the last task of a process exits, the process level data accumulated also gets sent to userspace (along with the per-task data). When a user queries to get per-tgid data, the sum of all other live threads in -the group is added up and added to the accumalated total for previously exited +the group is added up and added to the accumulated total for previously exited threads of the same thread group. Extending taskstats |