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From: Arjan van de Ven on 9 May 2010 11:30
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan(a)linux.intel.com>

The exported function get_cpu_idle_time_us() has no comment
describing it; add a kerneldoc comment

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan(a)linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm(a)linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com>

---

kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff -puN kernel/time/tick-sched.c~sched-add-a-comment-to-get_cpu_idle_time_us kernel/time/tick-sched.c
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c~sched-add-a-comment-to-get_cpu_idle_time_us
+++ a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -179,6 +179,20 @@ static ktime_t tick_nohz_start_idle(stru
return now;
}

+/**
+ * get_cpu_idle_time_us - get the total idle time of a cpu
+ * @cpu: CPU number to query
+ * @last_update_time: variable to store update time in
+ *
+ * Return the cummulative idle time (since boot) for a given
+ * CPU, in microseconds. The idle time returned includes
+ * the iowait time (unlike what "top" and co report).
+ *
+ * This time is measured via accounting rather than sampling,
+ * and is as accurate as ktime_get() is.
+ *
+ * This function returns -1 if NOHZ is not enabled.
+ */
u64 get_cpu_idle_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time)
{
struct tick_sched *ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu);
_
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