linux/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 54a19b4d3f docs: ABI: cleanup several ABI documents
There are some ABI documents that, while they don't generate
any warnings, they have issues when parsed by get_abi.pl script
on its output result.

Address them, in order to provide a clean output.

Reviewed-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com> # for fpga-manager
Reviewed-By: Kajol Jain<kjain@linux.ibm.com> # for sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_gpci and sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> #for IIO
Acked-by: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> # for Habanalabs
Acked-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> # for sysfs-bus-papr-pmem
Acked-by: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com> # for catpt
Acked-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Acked-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> # for rbd
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5bc78e5b68ed1e9e39135173857cb2e753be868f.1604042072.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-10-30 13:14:29 +01:00

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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 mumber
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