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Jim Warner
dec6b8ffe7 top: happy new year while incrementing copyright dates
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2013-01-23 21:23:35 +11:00
Jim Warner
b01946742b top: eliminate task row anomalies with active searches
This potential problem is caused by frequently spawned
and short lived tasks which happen to sort above a row
containing a match from an active Locate request. It's
most likely to be visible when under Forest View mode.

This commit will eliminate a potential duplicated row.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2013-01-01 12:20:17 +11:00
Jim Warner
ebf4d6dbba top: just touch up some comments for esthetic purposes
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-12-23 06:48:36 +11:00
Jim Warner
e6cb40235e top: extend scaled summary memory range to include EiB
This commit increases the upper limit for summary area
memory scaling to 9999.999 Exbibytes. It also enhances
the man page through a helpful table for equivalences.

(now that we know a '.' + 2 spaces is squeezed to one)
(everything's perfectly justified, but it's just luck)

Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-regression-reports
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-enhancements-i-hope,1

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-12-22 17:10:12 +11:00
Jim Warner
21e550bc08 top: provide the means to adjust scaled process memory
This commit is an unrequested outgrowth of the earlier
change dealing with summary area memory field scaling.
That user selectable scaling provision is now extended
to include 6 (at present) task oriented memory fields.

The new companion 'e' (lower case) interactive command
has been added and, like the 'E' command, it can cycle
each of the currently displayed memory columns between
KiB through TiB. There are, however, some differences.

Where '+' indicates summary area truncation at a given
radix, task memory fields are automatically scaled for
their column. Thus, not all rows use the same scaling.

And, while summary area field widths were not changed,
the task memory columns were widened in order to offer
more meaningful data when the radix was increased. The
precision is automatically increased in step with each
radix: MiB displays 2 decimal places, GiB 3 and TiB 4.

To compliment that additional precision, both the %CPU
and %MEM fields were widened by 1 column and now offer
precision up to 3 decimal places. But, unique to %CPU,
widening could already have occurred due to the number
of processors in some massively parallel boxes. At any
rate, total extra width for both memory and percentage
fields could amount to twenty (precious) columns more.

So for both the memory and % fields the original width
(along with loss of precision) can be restored via new
compiler conditionals which this commit also provides.

p.s. and it will be rcfile preserved for any restarts!

(now that we know a '.' + 2 spaces is squeezed to one)
(everything's perfectly justified, but it's just luck)

Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-regression-reports

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-12-22 17:07:41 +11:00
Jim Warner
bc46f67f9a top: provide the means to adjust scaled summary memory
Earlier this year, the switch from KiB to Mib as shown
in top's summary area was postponed to those occasions
when KiB exceeded 8 digits. In hindsight that may have
moved top in the wrong direction, given the difficulty
of digesting such large numbers of digits at a glance.

This commit adds a new 'E' interactive command used to
cycle the displayed memory amounts ranging from KiB to
TiB. Thus, users can choose the radix they wish shown.

p.s. and it will be rcfile preserved for any restarts!

(now that we know a '.' + 2 spaces is squeezed to one)
(everything's perfectly justified, but it's just luck)

Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-regression-reports

commit 95f2201730
Author: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
Date:   Mon Feb 6 00:00:00 2012 -0500

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-12-22 17:07:40 +11:00
Jim Warner
d747659ad8 top: follow ps lead, allow core dumps where applicable
Reference(s):
Bug-Redhat: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/871825
commit c1f10d11bc
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/PATCH-Allow-core-file-generation-by-ps-command-rhbz871825-rhbz512857

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-12-22 17:07:39 +11:00
Jim Warner
eeafd6cfe0 top: highlight all regular search string(s) when found
With the recent inspect search highlight provisions in
place, the lack of highlighting in task based searches
has grown from being only irritating to a real defect.

Thus, this commit introduces parallel functionality to
those searches initiated within a visible task window.
And just as separate inspect searches are possible for
each selection, per window task searches are provided.

However, it should be noted that there are differences
between task based searches and inspect type searches:

* There is no concept of out-of-view data when dealing
. with task rows -- if the data can't bee seen, it has
. not, in fact, been constructed from a proc_t struct.

* While inspect data is output at the character level,
. up to now all task display data was only potentially
. output and it was always based on a complete string.

* With task search highlighting, rows now containing a
. match must be output in pieces and, therefore, can't
. be optimized away like other rows which haven't been
. been altered. This is because top cannot predict the
. the contents of a search string or, how many matches
. might occur in a given row. Short search strings and
. many matches would raise buffer needs geometrically.

(now that we know a '.' + 2 spaces is squeezed to one)
(everything's perfectly justified, but it's just luck)

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-12-11 22:54:25 +11:00
Jim Warner
5a0614e452 top: provide inspect selections with separate searches
This commit extends Inspect provisions for 'find/next'
to each individual selection. Thus a user can maintain
multiple active searches without having to reissue the
locate command whenever the current selection changes.

To emphasize this feature the View screen now displays
the current active locate string or 'N/A' if inactive.
Such a reminder is important when no found matches are
present on the 1st display page, given that they would
otherwise be apparent via the additional highlighting.

(now that we know a '.' + 2 spaces is squeezed to one)
(everything's perfectly justified, but it's just luck)

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-12-10 09:29:28 +11:00
Jim Warner
5ff464bdb1 top: highlight all inspect search string(s) when found
We have modeled the Inspect search provisions on those
provided by the 'less' pager. With this commit we take
the next step and provide for highlighting any strings
matched (and in view). Of course, top will continue to
adjust the beginning column so as to bring out-of-view
matches into view, while highlighting visible matches.

However, top won't emulate every 'less' behavior since
the following are seen as flaws in the user interface.

* when viewing true binary data, less makes no attempt
. to smooth the right margin by truncating unprintable
. symbols, thus creatng ragged unappealing right edges

* when viewing true binary data, less will always fail
. search requests regardless of surrounding characters

* less refuses to bring out-of-view found matches into
. view by adjusting the left-most column, if necessary

(now that we know a '.' + 2 spaces is squeezed to one)
(everything's perfectly justified, but it's just luck)

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-12-10 09:29:27 +11:00
Jim Warner
8292f7b8ec top: generalize handling of questionable rcfile issues
Previously top would warn users if an older version of
an rcfile was about to be overwritten. That's assuming
that RCFILE_NOERR was not defined. This left, however,
other potential rcfile issues or questions unattended.

For example, if a faulty 'inspect' redirected echo had
overwritten all window entries or if the inspect entry
was not 'pipe' or 'file' (actually, just a 'p' or 'f')
then top would silently accept it but look no further.

With this commit top will try to process every inspect
entry, while preserving unrecognized entries. Plus all
other non-fatal rcfile errors will now alert a user to
the potential overwrite when the 'W' command is given.

(now that we know a '.' + 2 spaces is squeezed to one)
(everything's perfectly justified, but it's just luck)

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-12-10 09:29:27 +11:00
Jim Warner
d2c84c6e13 top: use the type size_t more consistently for inspect
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-12-02 13:39:52 +11:00
Jim Warner
081fe506f3 top: add a flexible 'Inspect' capability
This commit introduces an extremely powerful, flexible
brand new capability.  Now, users can pause the normal
iterative display and inspect the contents of any file
or output from any script, command, or even pipelines.

It's invoked via the 'Y' interactive command which, in
turn, is supported with simple user supplied additions
as new entries in the top personal configuration file.

A separate new 'Inspect' window supports scrolling and
searching, similar to the main top display.  Except it
extends existing 'L'/'&' (locate/locate-next) commands
so that an out-of-view match automatically adjusts the
horizontal position bringing such data into view.  And
it provides for multiple successive same line matches.

Also, the basic 'more/less' navigation keys are active
in this new 'Inspect' window, to ease user transition.

There are no program changes required when entries are
added to or deleted from the rcfile.  And there are no
known limits to the complexity of a script, command or
pipeline, other than the unidirectional nature imposed
by the 'popen' function call which top cannot violate.

Since it's impossible to predict exactly what contents
will be generated, top treats all output as raw binary
data.  Any control characters display in '^C' notation
while all other unprintable characters show as '<AB>'.

The biggest problem encountered was with the find/next
capability since that strstr guy was really diminished
given the possibility that numerous 'strings' could be
encountered *within* many of top's raw, binary 'rows'.

Oh, and another problem was in maintaining the perfect
left & right text justification of this commit message
along with all of the commit summaries.  Some of those
summaries (like this very one) are of course, slightly
shorter, to make room for the 'man document' addition.

Enjoy!

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-11-27 22:08:02 +11:00
Jim Warner
e77c8e8cf0 top: for performance, employ additional inlining
The 'refactor and enhance column width management'
recent redesign produced many subsequent benefits,
the latest of which is automatically sized fixed-width
non-scalable columns.

As expected, there was a cost associated with these
many enhancements.  That cost has now been identified
as a 1-4% performance degradation, depending on which
fields are being displayed.

This increased cost arises principally from current
drawing related function calls, whereas top-3.3.3 did
most of its drawing via macros effectively inlining
those duties.

This commit inlines the equivalent drawing functions,
thus eliminating the function call penalty, and places
this top on a par with top-3.3.3.  The trade off is a
modest additional 4k in executable size.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-10-11 21:13:14 +11:00
Jim Warner
35cd340002 top: 'X' command offers auto option
The recent introduction of a column widths override
(the 'X' command) provided for a user input amount
to be added to default field size which ranged from
5 to 10 bytes.

While that approach could prevent truncated data, the
different default sizes would almost certainly mean
some precious screen real estate was waisted.

This commit introduces the concept of dynamic widths
where top will add only enough to a field default to
prevent truncation for that specific field.

Now users have a choice between their explicit width
override or a width chosen by top to exactly match
display needs.  The former is immediate but likely
wastes some horizontal space while the latter is
iterative but will be sized precisely.

Original 'X' Command:
commit 384afa494a
commit 47e1d063ac

Extensions to 'X' Command:
commit bbf8e44fb4
commit 7557f3f754

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-10-11 21:13:13 +11:00
Jim Warner
384afa494a top: optional wider non-scalable cols
This commit accommodates those fields which may have
suffered truncation due to these default limits:
  . 5 digits for uid/gid type fields
  . 8 characters for user/group type fields

With a new interactive command, users can increase the
width of all such fields, or return to the defaults.

Note:
   There are no restrictions on the amount added to
   the defaults.  The user is free to vastly exceed
   screen limits which simply means such fields can
   never be displayed.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-10-02 20:56:40 +10:00
Jim Warner
c07be1d492 top: column alignment under user control
This commit affords user control over justification
for both column headings and the subordinate data.

Separate toggles are provided for control of numeric
data and string data.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-10-02 20:56:40 +10:00
Jim Warner
0f61354bf7 top: refactoring now allows column header nls support
Now that column headings are independent of column
data format and require no carefully managed padding
bytes they are candidates for nls translation.

This commit migrates all column headings to the .pot
file with additional translator guidance in the form
of maximum sizes to avoid truncation.

It also places these new additions adjacent to their
associated descriptions, which were already present.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-10-02 20:56:40 +10:00
Jim Warner
64cfdda756 top: refactor and enhance column width management
This commit accomplishes the following objectives:
 * remove extra task_show parm added with 'Locate'
 * avoid column overflow with subsequent misalignment
 * eliminate spaces for column heading padding
 * decouple column headings from column data formats
 * eliminate all hardcoded column format specifiers
 * generalize the inter-column spacing management
 * remove Fieldstab.desc in favor of direct nls access
 * set the stage for nls support of column headings
 * set the stage for dynamic changes to justification

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-10-02 20:56:39 +10:00
Jim Warner
beb0982b28 top: implement a new approach to forest view mode
The TREE_RESCANS #define (formerly TREE_ONEPASS) has
been eliminated and the approach to forest view mode
redesigned.  The chance of dangling children has been
eliminated and overhead reduced.

We now order processes on start_time (non-display)
and are therefore immune to any pid, ppid or tgid
anomalies when pid values wrap.

The new algorithm also accommodates any distortions
caused by the 3.3 kernel 'hidepid' provisions --
something guaranteed to produce dangling children
under the former approach.

Related References:
commit a2086dfdf6
commit cd608f462e
commit 41ed28aa5d

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-08-31 07:22:31 +10:00
Jim Warner
d9cf59a9b2 top: add major/minor page fault deltas
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-08-29 17:37:29 +10:00
Jim Warner
17e0eaf0f3 top: add new scrollable column ENVIRON
The recent introduction of scrollable variable width
columns makes a process 'environment' a potentially
useful addition to top's displayable fields.

This commit exploits the following new library flag:
   PROC_EDITENVRCVT

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-08-29 17:35:24 +10:00
Jim Warner
a2086dfdf6 top: revise default for forest view child scans
In an effort to avoid dangling children when in forest
view mode, top defaulted to a complete rescan of every
proc_t for each child encountered.

That expense was never really cost justified and now
with the 3.3 kernel 'hidepid' provisions it no longer
can offer such protection.

With this commit, the TREE_ONEPASS define is changed
to TREE_RESCANS so as to reverse the default scan
behavior.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-08-29 17:30:26 +10:00
Jim Warner
06e92e93b8 top: miscellaneous minor tweaks (mostly spelling)
This commit represents mostly spelling corrections
in comments.  It also includes a few very minor logic
changes/relocations.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-08-29 17:29:46 +10:00
Jim Warner
fbfaa868ba top: improve scroll coordinates message handling
With the introduction of intra-column scrolling, the
scroll coordinates message was enhanced to give some
hint of positioning within a scrolled column.

Rather than rebuild this somewhat costly string from
scratch with each frame, we'll now do the bulk of the
work only when column headers are constructed.

The only remaining per frame costs will then be the
addition of a few terminfo escapes and the current
Frame_maxtask count.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-08-29 17:28:53 +10:00
Jim Warner
a652ba8c9d top: add intra-column horizontal scrolling
This commit introduces horizontal scrolling within any
variable width column.  Thus, an entire command line,
complete list of control groups, etc. can now be
viewed -- not just a screen width's portion.

It is activated when any variable width column:
 . is (via field selection) or
 . has become (via the right arrow key)
the only displayed field.

Then, the right and left arrow keys can be used in the
normal way to continue scrolling within that column.

The amount scrolled with each key press is currently
set as the normal tab stop increment of 8 characters.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-08-29 17:28:18 +10:00
Jim Warner
b079d130d7 top: miscellaneous cosmetic non-logic changes
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-04-15 10:24:59 +10:00
Jim Warner
0c874637ee top: extend case-insensitive option to include 'Locate'
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-04-15 10:24:54 +10:00
Jim Warner
fa21a6ca81 top: correct loss of keystrokes paste capability
When top introduced true line input editing, the
ability to paste keystrokes was lost.  This remains
a necessary evil so that top has an opportunity to
translate cursor motion keystrokes into terminfo
escapes during line input.  Motion keys themselves,
of course, can never be pasted.

If pasting ever became more important than input
editing, then native termios support should have been
available via a define called TERMIOS_ONLY.  But a
recent commit, eliminating what was thought to be
obsolete logic, rendered the alternate linein()
function virtually useless.

Similar to top-3.2.8, when native termios input is
functional, these abberations can be experienced:
. cursor motion keys will appear as escapes
. excessive input can cause line wraps
. ^Z during i/p is not be honored until <Enter>
. SIGWINCH during i/p corrupts screen temporarily

In hindsight, it now seems that the ability to paste
keystrokes may indeed outweigh any shortcomings of
native termios support.  This is especially true if
one is preparing to search ('L') for some lengthy
process command line contined in the clipboard.

Thus, this patch fixes the alternate linein() function
and changes TERMIOS_ONLY to TERMIO_PROXY so that top
now defaults to using native termios input.  In turn,
that will restore the paste keystrokes capability.

Reference(s):
commit: 045538e01b

Reported by: sergio <mailbox@sergio.spb.ru>
Bug-Debian:  http://bugs.debian.org/663334

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-03-16 07:10:53 +11:00
Jim Warner
87bb21b557 top: fix selected miscellaneous compiler warnings
These per instance warnings have been eliminated:
warning: range expressions in switch statements are non-standard
warning: padding struct to align 'winflags'
warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules

   These per instance warnings have not been addressed
   since they simply trade one warning for another:
      From:
warning: ISO C does not permit named variadic macros
warning: ISO C does not support the '%Lu' gnu_scanf format
      To:
warning: anonymous variadic macros were introduced in C99
warning: ISO C90 does not support the 'll' gnu_scanf length modifier

   Lastly, since all C compilers have supported use of
   C++ style comments for the past 20 years, the top
   program will never trade them for the often more
   cumbersome C style comments simply to avoid this
   once per source file warning:
warning: C++ style comments are not allowed in ISO C90

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-03-06 11:05:42 +11:00
Jim Warner
0053eefbb9 top: extend rcfile conversions for '--enable-oomem'
Under openSUSE, old top uses additional fields for
out-of-memory reporting.  As a result, under the
original approach to rcfile conversion, new top would
issue a fatal corrupt window entry message asking that
the rcfile be deleted.

This patch extends the conversion range to include
the extra openSUSE field characters.  It's effective
when ./configure specifies the --enable-oomem option
which in turn defines OOMEM_ENABLE.

This commit also makes the conversion logic slightly
more forgiving.  While enforcing an upper limit on the
expected number of old style field characters, amounts
less than that will be handled seemlessly.

Reference:
commit 4b98733132

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-03-03 14:01:35 +11:00
Jim Warner
4b98733132 top: honor the restrictive, crufty old top rcfile
At one time, new top silently defaulted when an rcfile
was found to be incompatible.  This is exactly what
the old top did.  However, after some discussion it
was decided top should alert the user and thereby
save the system administrator some headaches.

Now, some are upset over the fatal error, proving you
can't please everybody.  But in all fairness, given
the difficulty of customizing old top, any reluctance
to delete an old saved rcfile is understandable.

To ease transition to this new top, old style rcfiles
will now be honored and converted to the new format.
And if not disabled at ./configure time via CFLAGS,
a user will be warned when an old style rcfile is
about to be overwritten using the 'W' command.

Lastly, the config validation logic was enhanced to
help ensure both types of rcfile haven't been edited
manually and possibly made unuseable.

Reported-By: sergio <mailbox@sergio.spb.ru>
Bug-Debian:  http://bugs.debian.org/651213

Reported-By: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>
Bug-Debian:  http://bugs.debian.org/651863

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-03-02 21:29:43 +11:00
Jim Warner
efb9fcb816 top: relocate a prototype to prevent compiler warning
Until the 'locate/search' provisions were added,
top avoided the need for any function prototypes
through careful source file organization.  But
the addition of the find_string function required
a prototpe for task_show, lest a massive file
reorganization be undertaken.

This commit moves the actual protype out of top.h
and places it adjacent to the caller in order to
avoid a warning when top_nls.c is compiled.

References:
commit 270e8e7eeb
commit d6e6a9aa38

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-02-28 08:45:44 +11:00
Jim Warner
4dac0dfeb1 top: isolate #defines actually present in confiure.ac
All top.h defines were lumped together as:
   'Development/Debugging defines'

This commit establishes this new category:
   'Defines represented in configure.ac'

And that new category now contains OOMEM_ENABLE,
which enables the SuSE out-of-memory additions

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-02-28 08:45:35 +11:00
Jim Warner
045538e01b top: remove residual logic for obsolete functionality
At one time the 'open_psdb_message' library call was
supported with the concept of a postponed message
which would display after top startup completed.
In turn, that required logic to strip the '\n' which
was embedded (inappropriately) in any such message.

Nowdays top treats such a returned error as fatal so
there is no need for the 'strim' function which is
being removed with this commit.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-02-28 08:45:12 +11:00
Jim Warner
ee3ed4b45e top: update latest CPU % distortions understanding
We originally approached the potential problem of
% CPU distortions as unique to Nehalem type cpus.
The latest information suggests that it may have
been due to a kernel anomaly that has since been
corrected.

Yet even without such a cpu, wide disparities in
tics allocation among all available cpus have
sometimes been observed -- spikes as it were in
the normal pattern.  This has happened under both
version 2.26.38-13 and 3.0.0-15 kernels.

The small amount of additional code addressing the
original problem carries very little overhead.  It
is being retained to afford protection against any
future tic accounting aberrations.

In this commit, supporting programmer comments have
been divorced from any particular cpu type.  Also,
another variable and manifest constant will now be
eliminated when CPU_ZEROTICS is defined.

References:
commit 02508b3d76
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/CStates-handling-new-switch,50
2012-02-28 08:45:07 +11:00
Jim Warner
a096fec8c0 top: extend the Copyright (c) dates to include 2012
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-02-12 21:52:23 +11:00
Jim Warner
d0e16acf15 top: reorganize some fields management logic
The calibrate_fields function had grown too large and
was adversly impacting maintainence.  So half of the
logic was split out into a new function.

Now, maintainence of column headers and the required
library flags is organized as follows:

 . adj_geometry   (calibrate_fields helper)
     provides low-level support for sigwinch, memory

 . build_headers  (calibrate_fields helper)
     constructs the headers and library flags

 . calibrate_fields
     establishes which fields will be displayed

( note the alpha order mentioned in a prior commit )

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-02-12 21:52:23 +11:00
Jim Warner
270e8e7eeb top: standardize names of all 'helper' functions
The top program is carefully organized into sections
and those sections are carefully placed so as to avoid
the need for prototypes. *

Additionally, names of functions are carefully chosen
to maintain alphabetical order within each section.

The names of most 'helper' functions, which are always
placed immediately above the calling functions, often
only met the spirit of the alphabetical law, not the
actual letter of that law.

This commit alters the names of such helper functions
so as to mainatin strict ascii alphabetical order
within each section.

* the single exception to prototypes is find_string,
  which calls the task_show function, and would have
  prompted a massive reorganization.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2012-02-12 21:52:23 +11:00
Jim Warner
02508b3d76 top: use CPU_ZEROTICS to embrace the Nehalem logic
The recently added logic dealing with "missing" tics
is mutually exclusive with logic associated with a
define called CPU_ZEROTICS.

This commit expands the use of that define to exclude
such Nehalem logic as appropriate.

It also extends programmer notes in top.h to include
an attribution for initiating the topic of potential
Nehalem type % CPU distortions, acknowledging:
  Jaromir Capik, <jcapik@redhat.com>

References
commit ce1410a51a
commit 9e7dd43ab7
commit a9041a5526
2012-02-12 21:52:23 +11:00
Jim Warner
ce1410a51a top: fixup logic for Nehalem cpu 'idle' threshold
Due to a poorly constructed temporary fprintf
used during development, an earlier commit went
a little too far in its computations.  The net
result was the code looked nice but actually
accomplished nothing.

It is the /proc/stat line 1 (summary line)
whose tics must be used in establishing the
threshold boundary.  And that calculation
need be performed just once per frame.

This commit ensures one threshold calculation
per delay interval no matter how many cpus
are ultimately displayed.

It also corrects scalability by factoring in
the total number of online processors.

Reference:
commit 9e7dd43ab7
2012-02-10 07:01:10 +11:00
Jim Warner
9e7dd43ab7 top: tweak the new 'reduce % CPU distortions' algorithm
The original approach to potential % CPU distortion due
to Nehalem type cores being turned off completely when
idle worked ok until the user typed something.

At that point, elapsed tics would no longer equal the
calculated value producing an undesirable 100% idle
condition until the next update or <Enter/Space> key.

This commit employs actual elapsed tics in determining
whether a cpu should be considered idle and thus makes
top's individual cpu display immune to user keystrokes.
2012-02-08 21:00:00 +11:00
Jim Warner
a9041a5526 top: reduce % CPU distortions when a core was turned off
This patch provides for cpu cores which can be turned
off completely when idle (Nehalem, etc.) thus registering
very few or no tics since the last update cycle.

When CPU_ZEROTICS is not defined (the default), any
displayed cpu with less than a certain amount of total
tics will show as 100% idle.  That amount is tempered
by the delay interval and total number of cpus.

This commit also satisfies the Debian 'top_nohz' patch
(11/24/09) in a slightly more efficient manner.  That
patch concerned kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ.

Reference:
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/CStates-handling-new-switch,4
2012-02-08 20:57:58 +11:00
Jim Warner
f348575edc top: tolerate loss of smp cpus, improve CPU_t management
Prior to this patch, top was able to handle any hotplugged
cpus *added* to the system in two distinct ways.

 1) Newly added cpus would be detected by sysinfo_refresh
    calling the library's cpuinfo function, which occurs
    at most every 5 minutes.

 2) The user could force a refresh using either the
    <Enter> or <Space> keys.

Unfortunately, the *loss* of a cpu would produce an early
exit due to a /proc/stat read failure.  Such a failure
can be produced in the following way:
  sudo echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu??/online

This commit allows top to tolerate the loss of cpus.
It also provides for more efficient CPU_t management,
especially for massively parallel cpu environments.

Note: Changes to the cpu compliment can produce a single
cycle distortion of cpu percentages.  Such distortion is
most visible when each cpu is being displayed.  It can
be eliminated with a forced refresh via <Enter>/<Space>.
2012-02-08 20:57:51 +11:00
Jim Warner
b73a423cc2 top: avoid %cpu distortions when toggling task/thread modes
This commit addresses a long standing buglet (debian #441166) which
surfaces when the display mode is switched between task and threads.

An extra procps refresh is now forced upon such a transition which
parallels the approach used at startup for the exact same reason.

Reference: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=441166
2012-01-14 00:04:46 +11:00
Jim Warner
e64b6f70d7 top: update some programmer documentation (no logic, just comments)
This commit corrects some outdated programmer comments.

Additionally, certain nls justifications might become
increasingly obscure with the passage of time so some
previous nls commit text has been added as comments.
2012-01-04 08:58:54 +11:00
Jim Warner
edb71e5044 top: made prolog comments like those in procps:master 2011-12-22 23:48:05 +11:00
Jim Warner
acd73a1365 top: provided for nls table integrity validation 2011-12-22 23:48:05 +11:00
Jim Warner
fe7069dff0 top: corrected double #include missed at rebase 2011-12-22 23:48:05 +11:00
Jim Warner
434198e6e4 top: corrected missed escape seq from redesign 2011-12-22 23:48:05 +11:00
Jim Warner
bc0f73e335 top: added #include of proc/readproc.h to top.h 2011-12-22 23:48:04 +11:00
Jim Warner
3f7468082a top: finalized top nls support (or so he thought)
summary of changes:
. adopted relative paths to 'include' and 'proc'
  dirs so that stand alone compiles are made
  easier and no one need guess their locations

. corrected several names for enums and macro
  usage reflecting fmt vs. txt

. expanded all octal escape sequences to a full
  3 digits since one already required 3 digits

. finalized translator hints (for now)

programming note:
  as an aside, by not including an argument for
  the gettext --add-comments, any preceeding c
  style comment will be propagated to the .pot
  file, if the gettext macro isn't empty.

  /* Need Not Say 'TRANSLATORS' ...
  snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s", _(   // unseen
  /* Translator Hint: ...
  snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s", _("" // seen
2011-12-22 23:48:04 +11:00
Jim Warner
32a9adbc13 top: provide extensive, generalized nls support
Reviewed-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2011-12-22 23:48:04 +11:00