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Linux 6.16-rc7 Bringing Fix For Possible Bogus/Miscalculated Load Averages
Among the fixes merged today ahead of Linus Torvalds releasing the Linux 6.16-rc7 test kernel release is a lone patch on the 'sched/urgent' side to fix possible bogus load average values
"The commit e6fe3f422be1 ("sched: Make multiple runqueue task counters 32-bit") changed nr_uninterruptible to an unsigned int. Change the type of nr_uninterruptible back to unsigned long to prevent overflows, and thus the miscalculation of load average." Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.
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