linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] proc: use unsigned long inside /proc/*/statm

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Date:	Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:09:07 +0800
From:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: use unsigned long inside /proc/*/statm

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 03:41:15AM +0200, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>/proc/*/statm code needlessly truncates data from unsigned long to int.
>One needs only 8+ TB of RAM to make truncation visible.
>
>Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>

Thanks.
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