linux-kernel - Re: mmotm 2009-06-30-12-50 uploaded

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Date:	Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:39:13 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmotm 2009-06-30-12-50 uploaded

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:19:48 -0700
> Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> wrote:
> 
>> Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> 
> (I wasn't cc'ed?)

mm-commits but not you... (from Valdis)

>>> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:51:30 PDT, akpm@...ux-foundation.org said:
>>>> The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2009-06-30-12-50 has been uploaded to
>>> This dies with quilt 0.44, thusly:
>>>
>>> Applying patch procfs-provide-stack-information-for-threads-v08.patch
>>> can't find file to patch at input line 20
>>> Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
>>> The text leading up to this was:
>>> --------------------------
>>> |From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>
>>> |
>>> |A patch to give a better overview of the userland application stack usage,
>>> |especially for embedded linux.
>>> |
>>> |Currently you are only able to dump the main process/thread stack usage
>>> |which is showed in /proc/pid/status by the "VmStk" Value.  But you get no
>>> |information about the consumed stack memory of the the threads.
>>> |
>>> |There is an enhancement in the /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/*maps and which marks
>>> |the vm mapping where the thread stack pointer reside with "[thread stack
>>> |xxxxxxxx]".  xxxxxxxx is the maximum size of stack.  This is a value
>>> |information, because libpthread doesn't set the start of the stack to the
>>> |top of the mapped area, depending of the pthread usage.
>>> |
>>> |A sample output of /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/maps looks like:
>>> |
>>> |08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8312       /opt/z
>>> |08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312       /opt/z
> 
> The next line is:
> 
> a7d12000-a7d13000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
> 
> And I bet stupid patch(1) saw that "---" and decided that it was the
> start of a diff.
> 
> Try adding `-u' to the patch(1) command?
> 
> I use something like
> 
> 	patch -u -f -p1 --fuzz=1 -s

Yes, my .quiltrc file contains -u for QUILT_PATCH_OPTS.

-- 
~Randy
LPC 2009, Sept. 23-25, Portland, Oregon
http://linuxplumbersconf.org/2009/
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