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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Balbir Singh writes:

> So, scaled accounting will not be available if
> CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is defined? Am I reading this correctly

No, what makes you think that?  If VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y it is the
responsibility of the arch's account_process_tick to update the scaled
stats.  And the powerpc version does that by calling
account_user_time_scaled().

Paul.