linux-kernel - Re: 5.14-rc breaks iotop swap io monitoring.

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Date:   Mon, 23 Aug 2021 23:18:58 -0400
From:   Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>
To:     Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 5.14-rc breaks iotop swap io monitoring.

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 11:16:48PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > I just noticed that in 5.14-rc running iotop, it complains on startup
 > that "CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT not enabled in kernel, cannot determine
 > SWAPIN and IO %" and sure enough a bunch of columns show up as
 > 'unavailable'.
 > 
 > My suspicion is this commit, which I've not confirmed yet as it doesn't
 > cleanly revert.  I'll poke at it some more in the morning, but figured
 > I'd bring it up sans-evidence in the hope that I'll wake up to someone
 > having an Ah-ha moment.

Forgot to mention, my config has both SCHEDSTATS, SCHED_INFO and TASK_DELAY_ACCT set
to =y

 	Dave