[PATCH] io-accounting: report in procfs
authorAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:19:48 +0000 (02:19 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>
Sun, 10 Dec 2006 17:55:41 +0000 (09:55 -0800)
commitaba76fdb8a5fefba73d3490563bf7c4da37b1a34
treeeefa514957d847d1fea1b8a76755907758867aca
parent98c4d57decf97bf8ddfe948a3266aa56b38b1a51
[PATCH] io-accounting: report in procfs

Add a simple /proc/pid/io to show the IO accounting fields.

Maybe this shouldn't be merged in mainline - the preferred reporting channel
is taskstats.  But given the poor state of our userspace support for
taskstats, this is useful for developer-testing, at least.  And it improves
the changes that the procps developers will wire it up into top(1).  Opinions
are sought.

The patch also wires up the existing IO-accounting fields.

It's a bit racy on 32-bit machines: if process A reads process B's
/proc/pid/io while process B is updating one of those 64-bit counters, process
A could see an intermediate result.

Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Sturtivant <csturtiv@sgi.com>
Cc: Tony Ernst <tee@sgi.com>
Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net>
Cc: David Wright <daw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
fs/proc/base.c