Re: [resend PATCH for 3.2] procfs: do not confuse jiffies with cputime64_t

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:03:34 +0100
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> wrote:

> Hmm, it seems that this bugfix (for 3.2) stalled. I guess that it is
> primarily because it is multiarch fix.

No, it's because I'm behind in my lkml reading and nobody cc'ed me on
it.  I'd have got there eventually.

> I am sorry to bother you Andrew but could we push this through you,
> please?

Sure.

> The full patch for reference:
> ---
> >From 1fca39b21f3b344c90c30d98db6dcdcdc6815797 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:07:53 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] procfs: do not confuse jiffies with cputime64_t
> 
> get_{idle,iowait}_time are supposed to return cputime64_t values, not
> jiffies.  Add usecs_to_cputime64 for this.

Changelog is poor.  The patch is described as a bugfix but there's no
description of how the bug affects users.

Without that information I am unable to understand why you think the
patch should be in 3.2, why it should not be in 3.1, etc.  And without
that information, others will find it hard to determine whether this
patch will fix some problem which they or their users are experiencing.

(the patch doesn't apply successfully to 3.1 btw).