tiny lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c correction

Xin LI delphij at delphij.net
Fri Mar 5 20:38:55 UTC 2010


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On 2010/03/05 11:59, Alexander Best wrote:
> Xin LI schrieb am 2010-03-05:
> On 2010/03/05 11:26, Alexander Best wrote:
>>>> hi there. does this look right?
> 
> Not to me, the value is not to be used this way and the comments
> above
> the code explained the same thing.
> 
> I think we should use cputick2usec but it's not available to userland
> (one have to copy cpu_tick_frequency and friends).
> 
>> damn you're right. i completely overlooked that comment. would it be worth
>> making cputick2usec available to userland? is kvm_proc.c the only candidate in
>> need of converting cpu ticks to usecs?

I'm not sure how to do that unfortunately, is there a way to expose a
kernel variable to userland which also works on a crash dump?

Cheers,
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