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/*
 * Nr of active tasks - counted in fixed-point numbers
 */
static unsigned long count_active_tasks(void)
{
	struct task_struct *p;
	unsigned long nr = 0;

	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
	for_each_task(p) {
		if ((p->state == TASK_RUNNING ||
		     (p->state & TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE)))
			nr += FIXED_1;
	}
	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
	return nr;
}

/*
 * Hmm.. Changed this, as the GNU make sources (load.c) seems to
 * imply that avenrun[] is the standard name for this kind of thing.
 * Nothing else seems to be standardized: the fractional size etc
 * all seem to differ on different machines.
 */
unsigned long avenrun[3];

static inline void calc_load(unsigned long ticks)
{
	unsigned long active_tasks; /* fixed-point */
	static int count = LOAD_FREQ;

	count -= ticks;
	if (count < 0) {
		count += LOAD_FREQ;
		active_tasks = count_active_tasks();
		CALC_LOAD(avenrun[0], EXP_1, active_tasks);
		CALC_LOAD(avenrun[1], EXP_5, active_tasks);
		CALC_LOAD(avenrun[2], EXP_15, active_tasks);
	}
}