Re: Regarding USER_HZ and the exposure of kernel jiffies in userspace

2015-08-22 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 22 Aug 2015, William Breathitt Gray wrote: > I believe the error in my understanding is the assumption that _all_ > instances of kernel jiffies exposure in userspace should be scaled; but > it appears that not all instances are. When are kernel jiffies meant to > be scaled via USER_HZ, and

Regarding USER_HZ and the exposure of kernel jiffies in userspace

2015-08-22 Thread William Breathitt Gray
Hello, I submitted a bug report a couple months ago regarding the exposure of unscaled kernel jiffies in the /proc/timer_list file (see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99401): > I noticed that the “jiffies” line from the /proc/timer_list file has a > value that is not scaled via the US