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Message-Id: <20221121140734.397eacb569252aafee64c498@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 14:07:34 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools/vm/slabinfo-gnuplot: Use "grep -E" instead of
"egrep"
On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 10:36:59 +0800 Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn> wrote:
> The latest version of grep claims the egrep is now obsolete so the build
> now contains warnings that look like:
> egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
> fix this up by moving the related file to use "grep -E" instead.
>
> sed -i "s/egrep/grep -E/g" `grep egrep -rwl tools/vm`
>
> Here are the steps to install the latest grep:
>
> wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-3.8.tar.gz
> tar xf grep-3.8.tar.gz
> cd grep-3.8 && ./configure && make
> sudo make install
> export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
>
> ...
>
> --- a/tools/vm/slabinfo-gnuplot.sh
> +++ b/tools/vm/slabinfo-gnuplot.sh
> @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ do_preprocess()
> let lines=3
> out=`basename "$in"`"-slabs-by-loss"
> `cat "$in" | grep -A "$lines" 'Slabs sorted by loss' |\
> - egrep -iv '\-\-|Name|Slabs'\
> + grep -E -iv '\-\-|Name|Slabs'\
> | awk '{print $1" "$4+$2*$3" "$4}' > "$out"`
> if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
> do_slabs_plotting "$out"
> @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ do_preprocess()
> let lines=3
> out=`basename "$in"`"-slabs-by-size"
> `cat "$in" | grep -A "$lines" 'Slabs sorted by size' |\
> - egrep -iv '\-\-|Name|Slabs'\
> + grep -E -iv '\-\-|Name|Slabs'\
> | awk '{print $1" "$4" "$4-$2*$3}' > "$out"`
> if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
> do_slabs_plotting "$out"
Thanks. I'll add a cc:stable to this, in an attempt to make older
kernels work well with newer toolchains.
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