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@ 2010-05-11 16:16 akpm
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From: akpm @ 2010-05-11 16:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: arjan, mm-commits


The patch titled
     sched: add a comment to get_cpu_idle_time_us()
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     sched-add-a-comment-to-get_cpu_idle_time_us.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/

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Subject: sched: add a comment to get_cpu_idle_time_us()
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>

The exported function get_cpu_idle_time_us() has no comment
describing it; add a kerneldoc comment

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 kernel/time/tick-sched.c |   14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff -puN kernel/time/tick-sched.c~sched-add-a-comment-to-get_cpu_idle_time_us kernel/time/tick-sched.c
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c~sched-add-a-comment-to-get_cpu_idle_time_us
+++ a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -179,6 +179,20 @@ static ktime_t tick_nohz_start_idle(stru
 	return now;
 }
 
+/**
+ * get_cpu_idle_time_us - get the total idle time of a cpu
+ * @cpu: CPU number to query
+ * @last_update_time: variable to store update time in
+ *
+ * Return the cummulative idle time (since boot) for a given
+ * CPU, in microseconds. The idle time returned includes
+ * the iowait time (unlike what "top" and co report).
+ *
+ * This time is measured via accounting rather than sampling,
+ * and is as accurate as ktime_get() is.
+ *
+ * This function returns -1 if NOHZ is not enabled.
+ */
 u64 get_cpu_idle_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time)
 {
 	struct tick_sched *ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from arjan@linux.intel.com are

linux-next.patch
cpuidle-add-a-repeating-pattern-detector-to-the-menu-governor.patch


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