Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:39:55 -0500
From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
To: David Wragg <david@wragg.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] procfs: export context switch counts in /proc/*/stat
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On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:50:08PM +0000, David Wragg wrote:
> This patch (against 2.6.19/2.6.19.1) adds the four context switch
> values (voluntary context switches, involuntary context switches, and
> the same values accumulated from terminated child processes) to the
> end of /proc/*/stat, similarly to min_flt, maj_flt and the time used
> values.

Please put these into new files, as the stat files in /proc are 
horribly overloaded and have always been somewhat problematic 
when it comes to changing how things are reported due to internal 
changes to the kernel.  Cheers,

		-ben
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