[PATCH] proc: Documents guest column in /proc/stat

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Wed Sep 09 2009 - 06:53:44 EST


We added a new column in cpuX lines of /proc/stat, to show
the amount of time spent by a cpu servicing a guest, without
updating Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
---

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index ffead13..1c96cb6 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -1032,9 +1032,9 @@ Various pieces of information about kernel activity are available in the
since the system first booted. For a quick look, simply cat the file:

> cat /proc/stat
- cpu 2255 34 2290 22625563 6290 127 456 0
- cpu0 1132 34 1441 11311718 3675 127 438 0
- cpu1 1123 0 849 11313845 2614 0 18 0
+ cpu 2255 34 2290 22625563 6290 127 456 0 0
+ cpu0 1132 34 1441 11311718 3675 127 438 0 0
+ cpu1 1123 0 849 11313845 2614 0 18 0 0
intr 114930548 113199788 3 0 5 263 0 4 [... lots more numbers ...]
ctxt 1990473
btime 1062191376
@@ -1056,6 +1056,7 @@ second). The meanings of the columns are as follows, from left to right:
- irq: servicing interrupts
- softirq: servicing softirqs
- steal: involuntary wait
+- guest: running a guest

The "intr" line gives counts of interrupts serviced since boot time, for each
of the possible system interrupts. The first column is the total of all

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