linux-kernel - delayacct: alignment changes break iotop

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Date:	Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:37:45 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:	jeffm@...e.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, brian@...w.org, balbir@...ibm.com
Subject: delayacct: alignment changes break iotop

Iotop uses hardcoded offsets to find the taskstats struct members.
This got changed in 2.6.37 so it now iotop doesn't work on amd64.  The
offending commit is:

commit 85893120699f8bae8caa12a8ee18ab5fceac978e
Author: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 27 15:34:43 2010 -0700

    delayacct: align to 8 byte boundary on 64-bit systems

Brian Rogers gets the reported-by tag.  The bugzilla entry is:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24272

regards,
dan carpenter
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