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authorLinus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>2026-06-30 18:05:56 +0100
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ARM: 9480/1: entry: expand comment in __switch_tografted
As per discussion between the developers in the mail thread linked, expand the comment in __switch_to so that readers of the code understand what is going on. Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
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+What: /proc/diskstats
+Date: February 2008
+Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
+Description:
+ The /proc/diskstats file displays the I/O statistics
+ of block devices. Each line contains the following 14
+ fields:
+
+ == ===================================
+ 1 major number
+ 2 minor number
+ 3 device name
+ 4 reads completed successfully
+ 5 reads merged
+ 6 sectors read
+ 7 time spent reading (ms)
+ 8 writes completed
+ 9 writes merged
+ 10 sectors written
+ 11 time spent writing (ms)
+ 12 I/Os currently in progress
+ 13 time spent doing I/Os (ms)
+ 14 weighted time spent doing I/Os (ms)
+ == ===================================
+
+ Kernel 4.18+ appends four more fields for discard
+ tracking putting the total at 18:
+
+ == ===================================
+ 15 discards completed successfully
+ 16 discards merged
+ 17 sectors discarded
+ 18 time spent discarding
+ == ===================================
+
+ Kernel 5.5+ appends two more fields for flush requests:
+
+ == =====================================
+ 19 flush requests completed successfully
+ 20 time spent flushing
+ == =====================================
+
+ For more details refer to Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst