Re: kern/44620: /proc/stat broken after acpi changes (?) and only shows one CPU in amd64-current

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On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 06:00:06PM +0000, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/44620; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: kern/44620: /proc/stat broken after acpi changes (?) and only
>  shows one CPU in amd64-current
> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:59:02 -0700 (PDT)
> 
>  Just as a data point, /proc/stat is still broken.
>  
>  uname -a is:
>  NetBSD mara.i8u.org 5.99.51 NetBSD 5.99.51 (MARA) #37: Tue Apr 26 17:30:38 
> PDT 2011

I looked at my /proc, out of curiousity, and found that as non-root,
it's poorly/erroneously presenting info to the user. As root, -my- tests 
indicate
all CPUs are being represented, though.

kamloops$ uname -a
NetBSD kamloops 5.99.51 NetBSD 5.99.51 (kamloops) #61: Wed Apr 27 07:47:30 PDT 
2011  root@kamloops:/usr/obj/sys/arch/amd64/compile/kamloops amd64

kamloops$ pwd
/proc
kamloops$ ls -ld s*
ls: stat: No such file or directory <---- note multiple entries, but not really 
accessible.
ls: stat: No such file or directory
ls: stat: No such file or directory
lr-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3 Apr 27 12:22 self -> curproc
kamloops$ su - 
Password:
cdTerminal type is xterm.
kamloops# cd /proc/
kamloops# ls -ld s*
lr-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3 Apr 27 12:23 self -> curproc
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Apr 27 12:23 stat
kamloops# head -n 9 stat
cpu 731 0 1004 299831
cpu0 731 0 1004 299831
cpu1 17015 0 342 284836
cpu2 1749 0 368 300120
cpu3 17388 0 1761 283106
disk 0 0 0 0
page 0 0
swap 0 0
intr 513972


>  /proc/stat is:
>  cpu 1121 0 3946 3863645
>  cpu0 1121 0 3946 3863645
>  disk 0 0 0 0
>  page 0 0
>  swap 0 0
>  intr 0
>  ctxt 1015306
>  btime 1303884132
>  
>  In the past it listed cpu0 - cpu7.
>  
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