Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265800AbUITCfL (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:35:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265795AbUITCfL (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:35:11 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:26043 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265800AbUITCfC (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:35:02 -0400 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 19:34:52 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Andrew Morton Cc: Albert Cahalan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm1 Message-ID: <20040920023452.GR9106@holomorphy.com> References: <20040916024020.0c88586d.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040916024020.0c88586d.akpm@osdl.org> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1787 Lines: 40 On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 02:40:20AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc2/2.6.9-rc2-mm1/ > - Added lots of Ingo's low-latency patches > - Lockmeter doesn't compile. Don't enable CONFIG_LOCKMETER. > - Several architecture updates top(1) shows no tasks on sparc64. Large negative inode numbers appear to be showing up for /proc/stat and other /proc/ special files on 64-bit irrespective of endianness, and all processes appear to have the same inode number once again irrespective of endianness. It's unclear why top(1) enumerates tasks on x86-64 and does not do so on sparc64, unless 2.6.9-rc2-mm1 shows some behavior procps-3.2.3 is sensitive to that 3.2.1 is not, or some numbers are overflowing on 32-bit apps but not 64-bit ones (top(1) is 64-bit on x86-64 but 32-bit on sparc64) that userspace barfs on and not the kernel (no error returns from syscalls are visible in strace). ls and cat appear to work where top(1) does not. acahalan cc:'d as he last touched fs/proc/. $ stat /proc/stat File: `/proc/stat' Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 1024 regular empty file Device: 3h/3d Inode: -268435443 Links: 1 Access: (0444/-r--r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2004-09-19 18:46:38.246034917 -0700 Modify: 2004-09-19 18:46:38.246034917 -0700 Change: 2004-09-19 18:46:38.246034917 -0700 $ stat /proc/[0-9]*|grep Inode|sort -u -k 4,4 Device: 3h/3d Inode: 2 Links: 3 (the same on x86-64 and sparc64). -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/