Re: [2.6.37-rc1] /proc/vmstat failure.

[Tetsuo Handa]

Wu Fengguang wrote:
> 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.

Fixed by this patch. Thank you.

By the way, GCC treats "(void *) + offset" as "(char *) + offset"
but it is GCC specific extention. Maybe we should avoid such usage
in order to avoid build failure for other compilers.
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