On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006251321150.11318-100000@home.suse.com> you wrote:
>
> > Hello,
>
> > Looks as though nr_files in fs/file_table.c is not being initialized
> > anymore, on my box it is starting at a large negative number. So, was
> > this supposed to be zero filled elsewhere, or do we just need the
> > following patch?
>
> This also might be caused by the thing Tigran found: some portions of the
> kernel expect that
>
> int x;
> int y;
> int z;
>
> are consecutive in memory when they export it to /proc.
>
Ahh, ok, this look like it. These variables used to be in a struct, but
are now just individual ints. Extra testing with printks shows them all
at 0, so it is just /proc that is wrong.
-chris
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