From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030280AbXCCOca (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Mar 2007 09:32:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030279AbXCCOca (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Mar 2007 09:32:30 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:37919 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030284AbXCCOc3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Mar 2007 09:32:29 -0500 Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 06:32:04 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: devzero@web.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, balbir@in.ibm.com, csturtiv@sgi.com, daw@sgi.com, guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net, jlan@sgi.com, nagar@watson.ibm.com, tee@sgi.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Documentation for io-accounting / reporting via procfs Message-Id: <20070303063204.656b321b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1661550864@web.de> References: <1661550864@web.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:19:02 +0100 devzero@web.de wrote: > I have tried to compile some docs for the new and very useful io-accounting feature, mostly by grabbing the existing information from lkml/sources. > > Feel free to comment, modify, ignore - whatever. > > If you like it, maybe this can be merged into Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt later !? yup. it looks OK, thanks. > At it`s current implementation state, it's a bit racy on 32-bit machines: if process You have a funny backtick in there where single-quote was intended. In fact no quote at all is needed there.