I would use git blame to find out the reason.

Barry

> On 9 Dec 2019, at 13:18, Martha Simons <marthasimons9...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> (I know that this question might be more reasonable on a kernel list,
> but a while back I posted the question twice and got no answers.)
> 
> The acct struct is defined in /usr/include/sys/acct.h includes both
> ac_io and ac_rw for bytes transferred and blocks read or written,
> respectively.  
> 
> Fair and good - works (on paper) similarly to unix,
> solaris, hp-ux, etc.
> 
> However, in the kernel code [kernel/acct.c], ac_io (char) and ac_rw
> (blocks) are always set to 0 by these two lines:
> 
> ac.ac_io = encode_comp_t(0 /* current->io_usage */);
> ac.ac_rw = encode_comp_t(ac.ac_io / 1024);
> 
> For most purposes, this probably wouldn't be an issue, but I also do
> extensive performance analysis on several platforms and have written a
> fairly compresive accounting package (as a wraparound for psacct or as
> a standalone) including both an improved acctcom and a built-in
> reporter for it.
> 
> Does anyone know wby the kernel zero's out the bytes transferred data?
> (Overhead comes to mind.) Not that it makes a huge differnce for my
> purposes (I had to write some wraparound code to make a
> "best-guestimate" about the data I'm missing), but curiosity is bugging
> me now. When I compile my program on other OS's I get useful data for
> char and block i/o and I'd like to find out whether there is something
> obvious that I'm just totally missing here https://tinyurl.com/rljj8ae ..).
> 
> Thanks
> 
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