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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Brian Rogers <brian@xyzw.org>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>,
	balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@gmail.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: delayacct: alignment changes break iotop
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:22:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101213212253.GI1620@bicker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D068869.7040305@xyzw.org>

Yeah, but the rule is that we don't break userspace... :/

Fixing the bug in iotop was always going to be the easy part.  It's
great that they've applied a fix to git repo but it still takes a while
to get the fix out to users so they don't notice a problem.

I think we're going to need to put an ifdef IA64 then size is 8 else
size is 4.  I just started this thread because I was hoping someone
had a different ifdef to use, like maybe there are other arches which
care about the alignment and maybe there is a way to test for it.

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-13 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-13 11:37 delayacct: alignment changes break iotop Dan Carpenter
2010-12-13 12:57 ` Balbir Singh
2010-12-13 13:10   ` Dan Carpenter
2010-12-13 15:20   ` Jeff Mahoney
2010-12-13 20:56     ` Brian Rogers
2010-12-13 21:22       ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2010-12-14  7:02         ` [patch] delayacct: fix iotop on x86_64 Dan Carpenter
2010-12-14  8:02           ` Balbir Singh
2010-12-14  8:16             ` Dan Carpenter
2010-12-14 20:16             ` Andrew Morton
2010-12-14 20:21               ` Jeff Mahoney
2010-12-15  7:10               ` Balbir Singh

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