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Date:	Thu, 4 Nov 2010 01:46:43 +0800
From:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc:	"mrubin@...gle.com" <mrubin@...gle.com>,
	"david@...morbit.com" <david@...morbit.com>,
	"axboe@...nel.dk" <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	"kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com" <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	"nickpiggin@...oo.com.au" <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"torvalds@...ux-foundation.org" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6.37-rc1] /proc/vmstat failure.

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.

Thanks,
Fengguang
---
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index cd2e42b..42eac4d 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ static void *vmstat_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
 	v[PGPGIN] /= 2;		/* sectors -> kbytes */
 	v[PGPGOUT] /= 2;
 #endif
-	return m->private + *pos;
+	return (unsigned long *)m->private + *pos;
 }
 
 static void *vmstat_next(struct seq_file *m, void *arg, loff_t *pos)
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