From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lockstat - fix numerical output rounding error
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:37:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080826083721.GC27080@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080825211533.GA27943@tsunami.ccur.com>
* Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> wrote:
> Fix rounding error in /proc/lock_stat numerical output.
>
> On occasion the two digit fractional part contains the three
> digit value '100'. This is due to a bug in the rounding algorithm
> which pushes values in the range '95..99' to '100' rather than
> to '00' + an increment to the integer part. For example,
>
> - 123456.100 old display
> + 123457.00 new display
applied to tip/core/urgent - thanks Joe!
(btw., please include Signed-off-by lines in your patches in the future)
Ingo
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2008-08-25 21:15 [PATCH] lockstat - fix numerical output rounding error Joe Korty
2008-08-26 8:37 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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