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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: "mrubin@google.com" <mrubin@google.com>,
	"david@fromorbit.com" <david@fromorbit.com>,
	"axboe@kernel.dk" <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	"kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com" <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	"nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au" <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"torvalds@linux-foundation.org" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6.37-rc1] /proc/vmstat failure.
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 01:46:43 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101103174643.GA4985@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201011032011.BAB21899.OHVQtFLSFJMFOO@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>

On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 07:11:11PM +0800, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> "cat /proc/vmstat" triggered below failure.
> 
> BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 07c06d16
> IP: [<c050c336>] strnlen+0x6/0x20

It seems that m->private is of type (void *) while the original v is
(unsigned long *). Can be fixed by the following patch.

Thanks,
Fengguang
---
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index cd2e42b..42eac4d 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ static void *vmstat_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
 	v[PGPGIN] /= 2;		/* sectors -> kbytes */
 	v[PGPGOUT] /= 2;
 #endif
-	return m->private + *pos;
+	return (unsigned long *)m->private + *pos;
 }
 
 static void *vmstat_next(struct seq_file *m, void *arg, loff_t *pos)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-03 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <201011010053.ADE86905.JMLFHVtSQOOFOF@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
2010-11-03 11:11 ` [2.6.37-rc1] /proc/vmstat failure Tetsuo Handa
2010-11-03 17:43   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-03 17:46   ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2010-11-03 17:55     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-03 21:54     ` Tetsuo Handa
2010-11-04  2:20       ` Wu Fengguang
2010-11-04  2:52         ` Américo Wang
2010-11-04  2:53           ` Wu Fengguang
2010-11-04  3:31             ` Américo Wang
2010-11-04  3:43               ` Wu Fengguang

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