Re: [Xen-devel] ANOUNCEMENT: Debian packages for xen built on 2004-08-19 bk source

[Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Of course, vmstat crashes with a divide by zero too,
> > since xen guests don't increment idle time and vmstat
> > ends up doing a divide by zero.  I'll figure out how
> > Xen timing works and will post a patch, if I've got
> > the time this week.
> 
> In 2.6, it looks like we're not accounting time spent in the idle
> task, which is a bug (it works OK under 2.4).

I believe this to now be fixed: the test in ptrace.h to determine
whether we were in user or system mode was broken as it was
looking for ring 0 rather than ring 1.

FC2 vmstat now no longer segfaults, at least for me.

Ian


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