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+++ b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ There are three different groups of fields in the struct taskstats:
/* Extended accounting fields end */
Their values are collected if CONFIG_TASK_XACCT is set.
+4) Per-task and per-thread context switch count statistics
+
Future extension should add fields to the end of the taskstats struct, and
should not change the relative position of each field within the struct.
@@ -158,4 +160,8 @@ struct taskstats {
/* Extended accounting fields end */
+4) Per-task and per-thread statistics
+ __u64 nvcsw; /* Context voluntary switch counter */
+ __u64 nivcsw; /* Context involuntary switch counter */
+
}