Bug 77301

Summary:	procps: slabinfo format version change in Linux v2.6.10 caused slabtop failure
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mathieu Segaud <mathieu.segaud>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	albert
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	patch to have slabtop working again with linux >= 2.6.10

Description Mathieu Segaud 2005-01-09 18:16:11 UTC

Linux kernel version 2.6.10 recently released exhibits slabinfo format version 2.1
so slabtop doesn't work anymore
However, 2.0 and 2.1 formats seem compatible wrt slabinfoXX function.
Trivial patch below solved the problem, however I do not know whether it is the right way (macros...).

Comment 1 Mathieu Segaud 2005-01-09 18:19:12 UTC

Created attachment 48075 [details, diff]
patch to have slabtop working again with linux >= 2.6.10

I find this patch ugly. I guess a better fix could be introduced.
However, it works :)

Comment 2 Robin Johnson archtester

2005-01-09 19:05:14 UTC

A better short-term patch is:
-	if (major == 2 && minor == 0)
+	if (major == 2 && minor <= 1)

Until upstream puts out an update that uses the new nodeallocs field.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-01-09 19:12:30 UTC

be nice if you mentioned the packages these things belong to ;)

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-01-12 17:21:50 UTC

added patch from upstream cvs and released 3.2.4-r1

thanks regala & albert !