Re: [PATCH 2/4] nohz: Synchronize sleep time stats with seqlock

[Oleg Nesterov]

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.

But perhaps the changelog should mention other races we discussed.

Oleg.

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