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Jim Warner
27283bbc6f library: strengthen <pids> sort order parameter checks
The way that the passed sort order was validated would
allow the invalid 0 to fall between the sofa cushions.
So this patch will simply close that former oversight.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-10-05 21:32:54 +11:00
Craig Small
5321868929 library: Removed unused methods.
As part of the push to remove the old API, 3 more old calls were
deleted from the library. Now all someone needs to do is fix ps
and we're largely done.
2015-09-26 14:39:37 +10:00
Jim Warner
86b155b83f library: make the pids_sort_order enums more intuitive
The values of PROCPS_SORT_ASCEND & PROCPS_SORT_DESCEND
were a tad unintuitive. This patch will just make them
a more natural +1 for ascending and -1 for descending.

[ plus it still allows that fast path multiplication ]
[ instead of a comparison for signed numbers/strings ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-09-21 22:39:40 +10:00
Jim Warner
007e032805 library: introduce a fatal 'proc not mounted' function
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-09-21 22:38:38 +10:00
Jim Warner
42af8ffbc1 library: enable an 'invariant' stack for that pids API
After peeking at possible conversion of the ps program
it appeared that we may ultimately need the concept of
a 'static' pids_stack in suport of look_up_our_self().
In other words, one not impacted by procps_pids_reset.

This patch simply sets the stage for that possibility.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-09-21 22:37:40 +10:00
Jim Warner
80f1a05b78 library: abandon long/long long distinction with KLONG
With this patch the distinction between a 'long' KLONG
and a 'long long' KLONG is being abandoned in favor of
a consistent declaration as 'long' only. Plus we would
have also defined it as 'unsigned' except there exists
much code already explicitly specifying the qualifier.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-09-21 22:37:02 +10:00
Jim Warner
f0e447cc66 library: exchange <pids> 'addr' for that 'ul_int' type
Work on converting ps has revealed the desirability of
trading a void pointer for that ul_int type. There was
much arithmetic employed against such values and casts
would otherwise have been required. Even pmap needed a
cast on occasions when comparing an internal variable.

Besides, there is much to be said for reducing demands
on (and the complexity of) the result structure union.

[ we choose ul_int over ull_int since that former is ]
[ the exact same size and capacity as a void pointer ]
[ regardless of whether compiled as 32-bit or 64-bit ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-09-21 22:36:05 +10:00
Jim Warner
836c134579 library: with valgrind help, fix faulty meminfo assign
Not sure how this one has gone unnoticed until now but
with valgrind's help it's going bye-bye lickety-split.

Reference(s):
==26533== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
==26533==    at 0x4E4082B: procps_meminfo_stack_fill (meminfo.c:408)

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-09-21 22:35:05 +10:00
Jim Warner
88daa89883 miscellaneous: silence a whole bunch of clang warnings
[ but most definitely not all of them by a long shot ]

Reference(s):
proc/diskstat.c:186:17: warning: unused variable 'is_disk' [-Wunused-variable]
    int retval, is_disk;
                ^
proc/namespace.c:110:1: warning: control may reach end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type]
}
^
proc/readproc.c:1131:50: warning: address of array 'ent->d_name' will always evaluate to 'true' [-Wpointer-bo
    if(unlikely(unlikely(!ent) || unlikely(!ent->d_name))) return 0;
                                           ~~~~~~^~~~~~
proc/readproc.c:1158:50: warning: address of array 'ent->d_name' will always evaluate to 'true' [-Wpointer-bo
    if(unlikely(unlikely(!ent) || unlikely(!ent->d_name))) return 0;
                                           ~~~~~~^~~~~~
proc/sysinfo.c:45:12: warning: unused variable 'stat_fd' [-Wunused-variable]
static int stat_fd = -1;
           ^
proc/sysinfo.c:49:12: warning: unused variable 'meminfo_fd' [-Wunused-variable]
static int meminfo_fd = -1;
           ^
proc/sysinfo.c:51:12: warning: unused variable 'vminfo_fd' [-Wunused-variable]
static int vminfo_fd = -1;
           ^
proc/sysinfo.c:53:12: warning: unused variable 'vm_min_free_fd' [-Wunused-variable]
static int vm_min_free_fd = -1;
           ^
proc/uptime.c:157:12: warning: unused variable 'realseconds' [-Wunused-variable]
    time_t realseconds;
           ^
proc/uptime.c:158:16: warning: unused variable 'realtime' [-Wunused-variable]
    struct tm *realtime;
               ^
vmstat.c:574:20: warning: format specifies type 'unsigned int' but the argument has type 'unsigned long' [-Wformat]
                   DSTAT(PROCPS_DISKSTAT_READ_TIME),
                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
vmstat.c:578:20: warning: format specifies type 'unsigned int' but the argument has type 'unsigned long' [-Wformat]
                   DSTAT(PROCPS_DISKSTAT_WRITE_TIME),
                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
watch.c:230:7: warning: variable 'endptr' is uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized]
        if (*endptr == '\0') set_ansi_attribute(0); /* [m treated as [0m */
             ^~~~~~

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-09-21 22:34:27 +10:00
Jim Warner
a6b50e59ef miscellaneous: cleanup accumulated trailing whitespace
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-09-21 22:33:50 +10:00
Jim Warner
17d77f8016 library: add PROCPS_PIDS_TTY_NAME to compliment number
OK, ok, this was kind of a huge omission. So please do
not select the TTY field for display in top quite yet,
at least until a next patch has been pushed to GitLab.

And to produce a correct sort order for this new field
the GNU 'strverscmp' routine was a necessary addition.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-09-09 21:22:43 +10:00
Craig Small
617a4d0f70 library: Add space after days for uptime
Uptime output for both w and uptime command were showing no
comma or space after days.

$ ./uptime
 18:32:21 up 22 days7 min,  6 users,  load average: 0.23, 0.46, 0.64

Minor tweak to fix this.
2015-09-07 18:38:39 +10:00
Jim Warner
5e46a145ba library: ensure any 'flags' is consistently 'unsigned'
This commit is an outgrowth of the research into a bug
that recently surfaced with the 'w' program. And while
that program was just a victim several inconsistencies
were found in the handling of library flags during the
research. This patch just address such irregularities.

Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/newlib-at-the-precipice,4

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-09-07 18:11:48 +10:00
Jim Warner
c39f4735c0 library: swat (now) obvious bug from PROCPS_PIDS_extra
I can't remember during what sleepy hour that enum was
added to pids.h, but it damn sure fell short of a full
implementation by approximately 1,000,000 miles or so.

Strangely it surfaced on Craig's system seemingly ggdb
related whereas on mine, a segmentation fault was only
seen when that -h (no header) argument was being used.

Oh well, the road to its resolution also offered us an
opportunity to cleanup some other items along the way.

Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/newlib-at-the-precipice,4

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-09-07 18:11:48 +10:00
Jim Warner
34395be330 library: suppress zero 'days' under the <uptime.h> API
The former whattime logic used to suppress that 'days'
output when the system had been up less than 24 hours.

But since the refactor for newlib, '0 days' was always
output under those conditions. So this commit restores
the former expected behavior of suppressing that item.

[ plus an erroneous calculation of uphours was fixed ]

[ and the clang warnings shown below were also fixed ]

Reference(s):
proc/uptime.c:74:10: warning: unused variable 'buf' [-Wunused-variable]
    char buf[256];
         ^
proc/uptime.c:131:58: warning: data argument not used by format string [-Wformat-extra-args]
        pos += sprintf(upbuf + pos, "%d min, ", uphours, upminutes);
                                    ~~~~~~~~~~           ^
proc/uptime.c:175:15: warning: expression result unused [-Wunused-value]
        comma +1;
        ~~~~~ ^~

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-09-06 21:59:17 +10:00
Jim Warner
07ec0b4e09 library: extend 'noop' concept to a resettable 'extra'
The presence of that PROCPS_PIDS_noop may yet see some
use in the future with its 'no alter' library promise.

However, when top used that item to reflect the forest
view nesting level, the unchanging nature of that item
became more of an inconvenience than benefit. For each
refresh top was forced to loop through all the stacks,
resetting that PROCPS_PIDS_noop result struct to zero.

So this commit will now offer users a choice between a
new re-initialized item (PROCPS_PIDS_extra) & the noop
invariant.  Since the library already resets all those
result structures, top will now utilize it at no cost.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-09-06 21:57:49 +10:00
Jim Warner
1b38b751ff library: more miscellaneous pids implementation tweaks
A patch containing the following miscellaneous tweaks:

. make a supposedly robust parameter test truly robust
[ ensure the largest enum value used with validation ]

. remove duplicate item test in cleanup_stack function
[ is already subordinate to test of PROCPS_PIDS_noop ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-09-03 22:37:50 +10:00
Craig Small
a61f78d6e0 library: rework namespace calls
Functions related to namespaces were half-in half-out of the
procps library and didn't fit the standard naming scheme.

While struct { long ns[x]} is a bit clunky, its the only way
to "lock in" x. The alternative is to use ns_* variables.

This work was needed before pgrep could be converted.
2015-09-03 22:32:19 +10:00
Craig Small
6252bf439f library: Remove tty_to_dev()
This library call was imported into w as it was only used in
this program.  Converting a tty to a device is not really the
work for libprocps.
2015-09-01 20:41:25 +10:00
Jim Warner
eba58ec17a library: beef up 'enum pids_item' parameter validation
I was surprised to find that ol' gcc silently converts
a single (different) enum into an address where one or
more enums were expected to be dereferenced. Of course
this was just yet another way to generate an old SEGV.

So this commit will strengthen those parameter checks.

[ we will *not* blame Craig for a failure to consult ]
[ the documentation, since it doesn't even exist yet ]

Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/newlib-ps-fix,8

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-08-31 17:49:19 +10:00
Jim Warner
e169b41a85 library: accumulated changes to <pids> code & comments
A patch containing the following miscellaneous tweaks:

. avoided distortions unique to PROCPS_PIDS_TICS_DELTA
. addressed several smatch warnings and/or suggestions
. ensured oldproc_close invoked should tally_proc fail
. keeping that namespace clean, added a missing #undef
. added 2 comments acknowledging pids_item as unsigned
. added/clarified comments regarding proc flags & strv

From smatch analysis:
. these were indeed boo-boos
pids.c:580 make_hist() warn: the 'Hr' macro might need parens
pids.c:1058 procps_pids_reap() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'info' (see line 1056)
. these were not errors (and we did double check)
pids.c:1067 procps_pids_reap() warn: double check that we're allocating correct size: 8 vs 128
pids.c:1068 procps_pids_reap() warn: double check that we're allocating correct size: 8 vs 128

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-08-31 17:46:53 +10:00
Jim Warner
272081cbe6 library: introduce pids 'value extractor' helper macro
As an experiment a helper macro used to extract values
from a result stack has been added to the header file.

Don't force callers to reinvent that particular wheel.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-08-27 22:22:01 +10:00
Jim Warner
f69c421295 library: add real string vectors to the pids interface
After experimenting with an adaptation of pidof to the
new pids interface, it became apparent that vectorized
versions of those command lines would be necessary. So
this commit adds that option and the strv result type.

And since the stage had been set, a vectorized version
of PROCPS_PIDS_ENVIRON & PROCPS_PIDS_CGROUP was added.

Lastly, any use of 'const' in the result structure was
removed so callers need not be bothered with casts and
compiler warnings. Hopefully, they'll respect a stack.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-08-27 22:21:30 +10:00
Jim Warner
9ecc0c8473 library: add sequential access to that pids collection
To ease the transition to the new interface, for other
than that top program, individual read provisions have
been added to the <proc/pids.h> API. This represents a
refinement of a position stated in a post noted below.

Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/newlib-ps-fix

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-08-27 22:20:51 +10:00
Jim Warner
def5858810 library: fix major oops in procps_pids_reap() function
In my zeal to finalize the initial pids implementation
I omitted some quite important parameter checking from
the above function. Thank goodness top was kind to us.

Also, in anticipation of the additions of single stack
read and supporting functions some items were renamed.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-08-27 22:19:54 +10:00
Jim Warner
e949b78c30 library: revert changes to 'look_up_our_self' function
The patch below is where most proc_t fixed size arrays
became simple pointers to char. In that commit changes
to the above function were made so that dynamic memory
was freed which included the program name (cmd) field.

That change was prompted by a valgrind reported memory
leak during development that no longer seems to exist.
However, by keeping the look_up_our_self() changes the
ps command without args then fails to report anything.

So this patch just restores the expected old behavior.

Reference(s):
commit 3881a0844a

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-08-26 22:42:02 +10:00
Jim Warner
64238730fa build, library & top: make OOMEM options unconditional
It was probably always wrong to have a variable length
proc_t structure. This patch takes all remaining oomem
former suse only options and makes them unconditional.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-08-23 21:08:18 +10:00
Jim Warner
387d4030f4 library: miscellaneous tweaks to pid code and comments
. traded a complex misaligned memory allocation scheme
in the make_hist function for a simple aligned scheme.
plus memory allocation increases are globally defined.

. changed 1 parameter for procps_pids_stacks_sort() to
better reflect the 'array of pointers', not an address
of a pointer as is used with guys such as 'new/unref'.

. the pids_reap struct was changed slightly to make it
more reflective of it's actual implementation details.

. the Item_table member .mustfree is now .needfree and
that .makehist was now made .needhist for consistency.

. reduced the number of separate 'return NULL;' source
statements in that primary procps_pids_reap() routine.

. ensured consistent reference to sizeof(void *) & not
occasional reference to sizeof(void*) without a space.

. rather than enable/disable validate_stacks via a #if
in the function body, it is now handled via a #define.

. some comments in the procps_pids_reset function were
adjusted to reflect this current implementation. shown
originally, they reflected an aborted attempt to avoid
a testing aberration not fully understood at the time.

. added a summary of the memory overhead cost of HST_t
processing to that UNREF_RPTHASH output at unref time.

. a 'PIDs at max depth:' portion of that UNREF_RPTHASH
enabled #define is now published only when the maximum
depth of hash table entry chains exceed depths of one.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-08-23 21:08:18 +10:00
Jim Warner
7e6a371d8a library: implement task/thread support via the new api
This commit is the culmination of efforts to modernize
the library api. It should be treated as a first blush
attempt, especially since I have absolutely no library
design experience. But I did have a very strong desire
to lessen the new library's impact on the top program.

Under this new api, a 'stack' is the equivalent of the
old proc_t. It can be seen as a variable length record
whose contents & order is under complete user control.

That initial stack/record configuration is established
at procps_pids_new() time and will probably serve most
program needs. But, a dynamic & demanding program like
top will later change a stack via procps_pids_reset().

For programs like top & ps, procps_pids_reap() will be
the function that will retrieve all tasks and threads.

Any program that needs to filter / select only certain
processes or users have available other functions that
can be used: procps_pids_stacks_alloc, fill & dealloc.

This implementation attempts to maximize that existing
proven libprocps code base. As we gain more experience
such actual code can be migrated into the pids.c file.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-08-23 21:05:06 +10:00
Jim Warner
3881a0844a old library: just some tweaks for transition to newlib
A few minor changes are being made to position the old
readproc logic for a transition to the newlib pid api.

These changes will not impact current users beyond the
the need to recompile such code. Hopefully this should
be very last version change to the deprecated library.

. most char arrays were replaced via char * to dynamic
memory. this was done so that newlib could just assume
ownership of such strings without using a strdup call.

. former user and group name arrays also became char *
but here the reason was because pwcache already cached
those names. so, copying to an array never made sense.

. the concept of QUICK_THREADS used to avoid duplicate
overhead for string data was disabled. it could not be
integrated with the newlib design, at least initially.

. any #define which influenced the size of that proc_t
was disable in the header. it was probably a poor idea
to approach optional features in such a manner anyway.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-08-23 21:05:06 +10:00
Jim Warner
63e828fe88 library: minor tweaks of program logic and/or comments
This commit just corrects the oversight wherein 'item'
was being employed when 'these' was actually intended.

Also, it trades some 'item' use for a more descriptive
input parameter which henceforth is known as a 'dest'.

And, there was one leftover 'next' pointer eliminated.

Finally, some logic was made a tad less dependent upon
enumerator names and a few comments were also updated.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-07-28 21:51:00 +10:00
Jim Warner
ae4b686745 library: eliminate extra stack header space provisions
With the new perspective on potential uses of a 'noop'
enumerator (or whatever we decide to call it) there is
no longer a need to provide for any extra 'user' space
in the stack header structures used by slab & meminfo.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-07-23 22:31:50 +10:00
Jim Warner
02b25a2eec library: vmstat redesign now using 'stack' vs. 'chain'
In addition to that text shown below the line which is
common to several commit messages, this patch contains
several minor changes with lessor impact upon the API:

. Standard copyright boilerplate was added in .c file.

. The #include header files are ordered alphabetically
now, with all those <sys/??> types separately grouped.

. The header file follows the conventions of indenting
(by 4 spaces) those parameters too lengthy for 1 line.

------------------------------------------------------
. The former 'chains' have now become 'stacks' without
the 'next' pointer in each result struct. The pointers
initially seemed to offer some flexibility with memory
allocations and benefits for the library access logic.
However, user access was always via displacement and a
a statically allocated chain was cumbersome to define.

. An enumerator ending in '_noop' will no longer serve
as a fencepost delimiter. Rather, it has become a much
more important and flexible user oriented tool. Adding
one or more such 'items' in any items list passed into
the library becomes the means of extending the 'stack'
to also include user (not just library) data. Any such
data is guaranteed to never be altered by the library.

. Anticipating PID support, where many different types
must be represented in a result structure, we'll adopt
a common naming standard. And, while not every results
structure currently needs to reflect disparate types a
union will be employed so the same dot qualifier ('.')
can be used consistently when accessing all such data.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-07-23 22:31:44 +10:00
Jim Warner
2ceb4c31da library: readstat redesigned using 'stack' vs. 'chain'
In addition to that text shown below the line which is
common to several commit messages, this patch contains
several minor changes with lessor impact upon the API:

. A call to procps_stat_read_jiffs() has been added to
those jiffs functions carrying the 'fill' nomenclature
to parallel like functions in some of our other files.

. The #include header files are ordered alphabetically
now, with all those <sys/??> types separately grouped.

. Standard copyright boilerplate was added in .c file.

. The header file follows the conventions of indenting
(by 4 spaces) those parameters too lengthy for 1 line.

------------------------------------------------------
. The former 'chains' have now become 'stacks' without
the 'next' pointer in each result struct. The pointers
initially seemed to offer some flexibility with memory
allocations and benefits for the library access logic.
However, user access was always via displacement and a
a statically allocated chain was cumbersome to define.

. An enumerator ending in '_noop' will no longer serve
as a fencepost delimiter. Rather, it has become a much
more important and flexible user oriented tool. Adding
one or more such 'items' in any items list passed into
the library becomes the means of extending the 'stack'
to also include user (not just library) data. Any such
data is guaranteed to never be altered by the library.

. Anticipating PID support, where many different types
must be represented in a result structure, we'll adopt
a common naming standard. And, while not every results
structure currently needs to reflect disparate types a
union will be employed so the same dot qualifier ('.')
can be used consistently when accessing all such data.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-07-23 22:31:39 +10:00
Jim Warner
6aa36717c4 library: slab is redesigned to use 'stack' vs. 'chain'
In addition to that text shown below the line which is
common to several commit messages, this patch contains
several minor changes with lessor impact upon the API:

. A 'read' was added to function procps_slabnode_count
(but only when necessary, i.e. info->nodes_used == 0).

. The #include header files are ordered alphabetically
now, with all those <sys/??> types separately grouped.

------------------------------------------------------
. The former 'chains' have now become 'stacks' without
the 'next' pointer in each result struct. The pointers
initially seemed to offer some flexibility with memory
allocations and benefits for the library access logic.
However, user access was always via displacement and a
a statically allocated chain was cumbersome to define.

. An enumerator ending in '_noop' will no longer serve
as a fencepost delimiter. Rather, it has become a much
more important and flexible user oriented tool. Adding
one or more such 'items' in any items list passed into
the library becomes the means of extending the 'stack'
to also include user (not just library) data. Any such
data is guaranteed to never be altered by the library.

. Anticipating PID support, where many different types
must be represented in a result structure, we'll adopt
a common naming standard. And, while not every results
structure currently needs to reflect disparate types a
union will be employed so the same dot qualifier ('.')
can be used consistently when accessing all such data.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-07-23 22:31:32 +10:00
Jim Warner
b8c688fb36 library: meminfo redesigned to use 'stack' vs. 'chain'
In addition to that text shown below the line which is
common to several commit messages, this patch contains
the following additional change without an API impact:

. The #include header files are ordered alphabetically
now, with all those <sys/??> types separately grouped.

------------------------------------------------------
. The former 'chains' have now become 'stacks' without
the 'next' pointer in each result struct. The pointers
initially seemed to offer some flexibility with memory
allocations and benefits for the library access logic.
However, user access was always via displacement and a
a statically allocated chain was cumbersome to define.

. An enumerator ending in '_noop' will no longer serve
as a fencepost delimiter. Rather, it has become a much
more important and flexible user oriented tool. Adding
one or more such 'items' in any items list passed into
the library becomes the means of extending the 'stack'
to also include user (not just library) data. Any such
data is guaranteed to never be altered by the library.

. Anticipating PID support, where many different types
must be represented in a result structure, we'll adopt
a common naming standard. And, while not every results
structure currently needs to reflect disparate types a
union will be employed so the same dot qualifier ('.')
can be used consistently when accessing all such data.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-07-23 22:31:24 +10:00
Craig Small
887f2a81d7 library: tests for sysinfo
First set of tests for the library API, this lot checks the two
functions out of sysinfo.c

Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
2015-07-20 22:23:21 +10:00
Jim Warner
53b33a1ab8 library: ensure the consistent handling of 'noop' enum
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-07-15 21:27:14 +10:00
Jim Warner
9d1073a22a library: also include a 'read' for slabnode_chain_fill
While meminfo does implement only the singular version
of 'xxxx_chain_fill', it was wrong to limit the 'read'
to the plural version (only) within our new slabs API.

This kind of inconsistency will only spell trouble for
future users of the new libprocps API. So, this commit
will mean that any form of xxxx_chain(s)_fill function
also includes a 'read', whereas xxx_getchain does not.

Reference(s):
commit aab537bc13
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/newlib-interfaces

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-07-15 21:26:10 +10:00
Jim Warner
74cb6afcc9 library: tweak new interface code and improve comments
With a little help from smatch, this commit eliminates
some inappropriate code. Also some programmer comments
were (barely) improved (i hope) in some small measure.

Reference(s):
smatch: 406 procps_meminfo_chain_fill() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'chain' (see line 403)

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-07-15 21:25:09 +10:00
Jim Warner
5c3542c4e1 library: revised sort + new allocate APIs for slabinfo
With this patch, we will be close to an implementation
which will be needed when accommodating tasks/threads.
The following explanation was from an earlier message:

The slabtop requirements are similar to those of PIDs.
One must accommodate the variable number of slab nodes
(PIDs) while also accepting different data (char * and
unsigned long). Furthermore, some generalized means to
sort all that acquired stuff must somehow be provided.
------------------------------------------------------

So this patch expands the API to provide dynamic chain
allocation plus allow sorting of those dynamic chains.
While specific to slab needs (nodes, not global stats)
it is not too early to begin to think of newlib chains
as the opaque replacement for a deprecated old proc_t.

Better yet, any newlib chain is inherently variable in
length, something the old proc_t couldn't claim to be.
Of course, as we get to PIDs we'll want to grow/shrink
chains (easily accomplished with a special item enum).
And we'll want to grow/shrink those **head arrays too.
But these minor details don't seem insurmountable now.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-07-14 22:36:07 +10:00
Jim Warner
aab537bc13 library: refactor meminfo providing dynamic allocation
An earlier approach to meminfo chaining, referenced in
the patch shown below, represents the first baby steps
toward the goal of some generalized approach with PIDs
processing. However, statically allocating a chain for
each task or thread is totally impractical. And, while
a single chain could serve all PIDs, that would mean a
separate call to our library for each running process.

This commit is intended as the next evolutionary step,
dynamically allocating some 'result' chains to contain
as many or as few 'items' as a caller wishes. In other
words, holding only those 'items' of current interest.

This is the kind of service useful for both top and ps
programs if we finally get around to /proc/<PID> data.

Reference(s):
commit c3fd7473c5

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-07-14 22:32:41 +10:00
Craig Small
cf6c2155dc library: rebase & make current initial slabinfo effort
This was Craig's original patch, referenced below, but
it was never pushed to newlib. It has now been rebased
on top of some diskstat stuff to serve as a beginning.

The original effort was perfectly serviceable (after a
memory leak was fixed) but the approach would not have
served future PID needs when that proc_t went bye bye.

The slabtop requirements are similar to those of PIDs.
One must accommodate the variable number of slab nodes
(PIDs) while also accepting different data (char * and
unsigned long). Furthermore, some generalized means to
sort all that acquired stuff must somehow be provided.

So I wanted to try a different approach that seemed to
hold potential for satisfying future top and ps needs.
Subsequent commits will make that attempt, building on
Craig's original patch whose commit msg appears below.
------------------------------------------------------

All of the /proc/slabinfo related calls have been changed
here. They follow the same procps_slabinfo_* format.

Made both the slabtop and vmstat programs use the new
API as one was using the old one and one was just sort
of trying to do its own thing.

Sorting of slabnodes is also possible via the library.

Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/Sorting-slabsprocesses,3
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/library-rework-slabinfo-calls

Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-07-14 22:31:16 +10:00
Craig Small
e445f7e6c5 library: Update diskstat API
The calls for reading diskstat have been moved out of
sysinfo and into new files diskstat.[ch] These new
library calls follow the standard pattern for the
new libprocps.

vmstat is updated to use the new API and also got
the weighted IO time added.

vmstat -p previously would only show partitions, not
disks. There does not appear to be any good reason to
artifically deny a user to use this command on a disk,
rather than a partition so this restriction was lifted.

I also realised using int for devid means you can send
the library negative numbers, the index uses unsigned int.
Other similiar calls will need to be fixed too.

Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
2015-07-07 22:42:06 +10:00
Craig Small
62f9a51532 library: remove procps_pagesize_get()
This is actually a systemcall getpagesize(2) or it is defined
in configure using a variety of methods, including a default
hard coded value as a last resort.

There is no need to have this in libprocps
2015-07-02 20:54:11 +10:00
Craig Small
855a6a7055 library: remove getpartitions_num from library
getpartitions_num was only used in vmstat and basically counted
partitions in disks, this is now moved to vmstat.
2015-07-01 22:14:30 +10:00
Craig Small
161e06465b library: cleanup unused old functions
The old getstat and meminfo functions and their globals are
removed.

Also page_size is now a function, procps_pagesize_get()
2015-07-01 22:08:02 +10:00
Craig Small
c3e85cef73 library: loadavg change to procps_loadavg 2015-07-01 21:47:30 +10:00
Jim Warner
e88b11f176 library: normalize the readstat context structure name
The new library meminfo & vmstat modules use structure
names for their context which exactly mirror the names
of the very /proc/ files whose particulars they yield.

The one exception to this rule was the readstat module
whose struct was named statinfo yet the file was stat.

This commit simply renames that structure (only) so as
to hopefully establish such a naming convention as our
standard going forward. And, it's makes good symmetry.

[ this module's name itself is just perfect as it is ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-07-01 21:30:58 +10:00
Jim Warner
faf6d4dc93 library: the uref functions were insufficiently robust
The earlier attempt at protecting these functions from
already freed memory worked just fine until the memory
was, in fact, reused by the OS. At that point, the ref
count would most likely fail an existing a test for 0.

So this commit will take control of the 'info' pointer
and force it to NULL when a reference count reaches 0.

Plus, since it makes little sense returning an address
that a caller already has, henceforth we will return a
reference count out of the 'ref' and 'unref functions.

Reference(s):
commit 74beff80ff

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-07-01 21:30:17 +10:00
Jim Warner
336748ecc0 misc: remove yet more darn trailing whitespace buildup
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-07-01 21:28:22 +10:00
Craig Small
c183b18301 library: Replace smp_num_cpu with function
Instead of exposing a variable smp_num_cpus that is updated
with cpuinfo, use procps_cpu_count() which returns the same
value.
2015-06-29 22:31:36 +10:00
Craig Small
639daf5468 library: Update uptime calls to standard format
Changed all the uptime related functions to use the
standard naming procps_uptime_*
2015-06-29 22:09:59 +10:00
Craig Small
56399212c8 library: Remove signal name from library
Procps library previously held functions that were about either
listing or finding signal names. These are not really the right
location for a library about reading procfs.

This patch handles signal related functions in two ways:

For functions purely found in skill, these have been moved back
into this binary as they are used nowhere else.

For functions used across the binaries, these have been moved
into include/signals.h and lib/signals.c. Besides formatting,
these functions are largely the same.

To assist the skill functions, two functions to access the
signal map array have been added to lib/signals.c
2015-06-29 21:52:51 +10:00
Jim Warner
73d7a18d66 library: extend cpu jiff logic beyond cpu summary info
There was not a way I could see to support top's needs
for cpu information with the new 'chained' provisions.
The sheer quantity of such data plus the unpredictable
number of potential processors suggested a totally new
approach was warranted while keeping internals opaque.

So this patch introduces two new structures solely for
use by potential callers (as seen in the API). They're
responsible for providing them to the library which is
then responsible for filling them with requested data.

The top program will continue to provide numa support,
without involving the library in any of those details.
[ not to mention all the 'dl' and 'stderr' numa crap ]

With this transfer of the cpu tics duty to our library
the provision associated with the CPU_ZEROTICS #define
could not initially be migrated. The commit referenced
below suggests it may have lost its importance. In any
case such logic may yet be incorporated in the future.
But for now, that #define has been completely removed.

Reference(s):
commit ee3ed4b45e

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-06-29 21:31:03 +10:00
Jim Warner
74beff80ff library: make reads & unref logic a little more robust
Since we are not using a higher level standard C fopen
all of the read requests were made signal sensitive as
that can result in a 'temporarily' failed i/o request.

Also, protection against some user calling the 'unref'
function on already free memory has been incorporated.
This will protect us from some nasty 'Abort' surprise.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-06-29 21:30:48 +10:00
Jim Warner
0c162f7af0 library: add chaining provisions to readstat cpu & sys
If a caller chooses to reduce the overhead of repeated
function calls, this commit provides for acquiring all
the desired information in just a single library call.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-06-29 21:30:04 +10:00
Jim Warner
6bb1a033b4 library: tweak formatting for readstat header and code
This patch mostly just eliminates darn tab characters.

Plus the library function declarations and definitions
have been standardized. Most visibly, the input params
now have all been indented on their own separate line.

The following names were changed to more closely match
meminfo.c or provide a certain symmetry. Unfortunately
that also impacted some other pgms which were updated.

. 'procps_stat_get' evolved into 'procps_stat_get_sys'
. 'procps_stat_info' is now known as 'procps_statinfo'

[and just a little trailing whitespace was eliminated]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-06-29 21:29:49 +10:00
Jim Warner
a05084f381 library: add chaining provisions to meminfo and vmstat
If a caller chooses to reduce the overhead of repeated
function calls, this commit provides for acquiring all
the desired information in just a single library call.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-06-29 21:29:29 +10:00
Jim Warner
7a98cab187 library: add missing meminfo logic, improve efficiency
This patch fills in some missing fields which have top
dependencies. Additionally, I've tried to mirror those
calculations Jaromir added for release 3.3.10. The one
calculation that remains missing is 'available' memory
for some kernels. For this API, we'll use a fall-back.

Lastly the lxc safeguards which were recently added to
the old procps library were incorporated here as well.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-06-29 21:29:24 +10:00
Jim Warner
500a901475 library: tweak formatting style for meminfo and vmstat
This patch mostly just eliminates darn tab characters.

Plus the library function declarations and definitions
have been standardized. Most visibly, the input params
now have all been indented on their own separate line.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-06-29 21:29:19 +10:00
Craig Small
7a7cf686ec library: export pwcache functions correctly 2015-06-26 22:37:53 +10:00
Craig Small
cbf25b93e3 library: more mem and stat fixes
Make distcheck now succeeds.
Changed some of the binaries to use the new API.
2015-06-26 22:37:29 +10:00
Craig Small
05efbebb66 library: Fix up stat API
Adjusted vmstat to use the new API for memory and CPU statistics
2015-06-26 22:37:28 +10:00
Craig Small
ca4a09c432 library: memory and vmstat API changes
Created new set of functions for meminfo related calls. Liked the
format of that better so changed vmstat around so the look similar.
Missed the makefile change for uptime so added it in now.
2015-06-26 22:37:28 +10:00
Craig Small
d7932b9a13 library: uptime API changes
Removed the printf_uptime, binaries can do printf easily enough.
sprint_uptime split into two as there wasn't a lot of common
code
 sprint_uptime(): old style uptime line
 sprint_uptime_short(): short new style "uptime -p"

Hertz_hack needed this, no sane system uses the code (I think)
so just assume 100 like we do in FreeBSD.
2015-06-26 22:37:28 +10:00
Craig Small
a20e88e4e7 library: Add procps_meminfo_* functions
New set of functions that read the /proc/meminfo file. Still needs
work.
2015-06-26 22:37:28 +10:00
Craig Small
a410e236ab library: sysstat and vmstat api changes
Use the standard libc declarations.
For protecting the headers for C++ procps used to have its
own defines, this change makes them use the standard libc ones.

getstat() -> procps_stat_*
vminfo() -> procps_vmstat_*
These two components of the library now use the newer version of
the API with less exposed global variables. The old methods are
there for now.

Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
2015-06-26 22:37:28 +10:00
Jim Warner
4129c758ac miscellaneous: remove some trailing whitespace buildup
wish folks (craig) would use these in their .gitconfig

[core]
  whitespace = trailing-space, space-before-tab, blank-at-eof
[apply]
  whitespace = warn

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-06-20 07:46:23 +10:00
Craig Small
56d9d5e7e7 library: Change linux version
Added function procps_linux_version() which used to be an
exported integer instead.  Also changed the method of obtaining
the linux version (more correctly the os release) to use a specific
procfs entry. This works for both Linux and FreeBSD.
2015-06-19 21:00:46 +10:00
Jim Warner
3600f652e8 documentation: fix man pages due to refactor for wchan
This patch will bring three of our man pages into line
with the recent refactor of the libprocps wchan logic.

[ and also eliminates more damn eol whitespace which ]
[ snuck in our repo with the commit referenced below ]

Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/WCHAN,11
commit cf4788c28d

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-06-19 19:09:21 +10:00
Jim Warner
6b8dc5511f library: refactor and rely on modern kernels for wchan
Several Debian based distributions were recently found
to have omitted a kernel configuration option that had
the effect of rendering /proc/#/stat and /proc/#/wchan
useless for providing any 'sleeping in function' info.

That problem also prompted a reevaluation of the whole
approach to wchan matters which had grown increasingly
complex as our library evolved over the last 13 years.

The net result was a decision to rely on /proc/#/wchan
which arrived along with the 2.5 kernel. This then let
us vastly simplify the internal code plus the external
interface which will benefit both the top and ps pgms.

Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/WCHAN,11
https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/6/12
https://bugs.debian.org/711592

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-06-19 19:09:20 +10:00
Craig Small
505f257a8c library: remove procps_version functions
It doesn't make any sense to have the binary version strings
embedded into the library. The version strings are defined
already either in the Makefile or in include/c.h
2015-06-18 22:37:24 +10:00
Jim Warner
0557504f9c library: add support for displaying LXC container name
This commit adds a lxc container name to every proc_t.
If a process is not running in a container, then a '-'
will be provided, making such a field always sortable.

Unlike other proc_t character pointers, lxc containers
will find many duplicate shared values. So rather than
strdup 'em (with a later free required upon reuse), we
try to keep track of those already seen and share that
address among all tasks running within each container.

We rely on the lines in the task's cgroup subdirectory
which may initially seem somewhat unsophisticated. But
the lxc library itself uses a similar approach when it
is called to list active containers. In that case, the
/proc/net/unix directory is parsed for the '/lxc' eye-
catcher, with potential complications from hashed path
and names that are too long (something we don't face).

[ too bad docker abandoned lxc - our commit won't do ]
[ anything for the users of those kind of containers ]

Reference(s):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1424253
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/procps/+bug/1424253

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-06-14 15:36:05 +10:00
Jim Warner
96bce4e11e library: address memory aberration with LXC containers
Under a lxc container, the /proc/meminfo 'MemFree' and
'MemAvailable' amounts will be equal, unless memory is
being limited via cgroups in which case 'MemAvailable'
could exceed that for 'MemTotal'. And when a container
has been nested, there exist additional memory quirks.

A program might then display used or available amounts
greater than total memory (assuming unsigned honored),
or negative values (should a signed cast be employed).

This anomaly primarily impacted the top and free pgms.
Thus, two simple sanity checks have been introduced to
avoid any illogical kb_main_available or kb_main_used.

( Busybox top & free also display anomalous although )
( different results when running in a lxc container. )

Reference(s):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153817

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-06-14 15:36:05 +10:00
Filipe Brandenburger
c1c73c0d00 build-sys: merge automake subdirs into toplevel
This will be required for subdir-objects, otherwise automake will have
problems with more than one Makefile.am having rules to build the same
files.

Tested that it builds and both `make check` and `make distcheck` work.

Tested `make install` and compared the tree with the one installed
before this commit, both installed the binaries to the same locations.
The binaries are also in the same location in the build tree (for
instance, ps/pscommand is still there.)

Checked the binaries for the correct libraries linked into them. Binary
sizes matched before and after this change.

Signed-off-by: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden@google.com>
2015-05-01 23:19:31 -07:00
Filipe Brandenburger
90cc5460aa build-sys: add $(top_srcdir) to include search dir
This is required for out-of-tree build to work, since many source files
include e.g. proc/*.h which is not under the include/ directory.

Tested that `make distcheck` starts working after this patch.

Signed-off-by: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden@google.com>
2015-05-01 17:09:55 -07:00
Jaromir Capik
3477439278 3.3.10 API 2014-09-09 18:35:44 +02:00
Fredrik Fornwall
00279d692a Use <dirent.h> instead of <sys/dir.h>
Using <dirent.h> and struct dirent instead of <sys/dir.h> and struct direct
is preferred and works on Android which lacks sys/dir.h.

See:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/dirent.h.html
2014-08-26 16:01:57 +02:00
Jim Warner
bcbc3c5a02 misc: result after checking all files for misspellings
Reference(s):
https://github.com/lyda/misspell-check.git

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-08-08 22:14:21 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
2538b5ac03 library: increasing meminfo()/namebuf size from 16 to 32 2014-08-05 19:15:03 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
6cb75efef8 library: cached += slabs, used -= cached + buffers
From now we include slabs in cached
and exclude buffers and cached from used.
2014-07-31 15:10:42 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
3f3b1a59ad library: MemAvailable fallback now uses /proc/meminfo
Taking the values from /proc/vmstat was unnecessary
and prone to race conditions.
2014-07-31 15:10:42 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
784c6eda1c library: use LINUX_VERSION macro in the MemAvailable fallback 2014-07-22 18:18:51 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
cdc95efe74 library: fix kb_slab_*reclaimable names and export both 2014-07-22 13:52:11 +02:00
Jim Warner
c437faf8d3 library: evolve MenAvailable algorithm on older kernel
Let's not report zero for kb_main_available when older
kernels don't have MemAvailable. Instead, if we simply
duplicate the 'free' amount we can avoid all ancillary
problems, such as those involving top's graphing mode.

Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/kb-main-available-etc,3

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-07-21 16:17:52 +02:00
Jim Warner
e4f0b4ebf3 library: tweak newly added MemAvailable fall-back code
This commit just ensures recalculation of some amounts
for iterative processes, like top. It also trades some
repeated runtime calls to sysconf for a one time cost.

Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/systemd-support-to-library,7
. fall-back calculations
commit b779855cf1

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-07-18 20:49:57 +02:00
Jim Warner
6c148b4f8b docs: with systemd now in library, remember openproc.3
[ plus remove just a little darn trailing whitespace ]

Reference(s):
. systemd migrated to library
commit 9d8ad6419f
. added library documentation
commit a74fb8fade

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-07-18 20:49:57 +02:00
Jim Warner
1da2c98937 library: disable a potential 'ELF note' is missing msg
The stderr message regarding ELF notes appears on some
systems (openSUSE-13.1 for example) but I have not yet
isolated why. Since at startup we go on to determine a
Hertz value the old fashion way, this patch just turns
off the useless message until the cause is understood.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-07-17 13:31:06 +02:00
Jim Warner
9d8ad6419f library: generalize then add former 'ps' systemd logic
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-07-17 13:31:06 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
b779855cf1 library: fallback MemAvailable evaluation if missing
This commit adds support for fallback calculation
of the MemAvailable field if not exported by the
kernel. The MemAvailable field appeared in kernel
3.14, but it's possible to calculate it from other
fields since 2.6.27 (splitLRU changes).
2014-07-15 19:17:02 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
d75d8addc6 library: additional comments to the buffer size increase 2014-07-14 19:44:14 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
b2ad21990a library: fixing buffer sizes in sysinfo.c 2014-07-14 19:07:25 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
d4ddc96bc1 library: changing P_G_SZ from 20 to 33
Nowadays the usernames can be 32 characters long
(typically OpenShift usernames use the whole length)
and the old limit was preventing us from processing
them correctly.
The macro change affects the proc_t structure size.
2014-07-14 16:21:52 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
0393047a4f library: removing note about PROC_{PID,UID} being obsolete 2014-07-14 16:12:53 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
a74fb8fade docs: adding openproc(), readproc() and readproctab() man 2014-07-14 16:07:23 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
ba6396f886 free: support for MemAvailable
This commit adds a new switch -a/--available that
appends a new column called 'available' to the
output. The column displays an estimation
of how much memory is available for starting
new applications, without swapping. Unlike the data
provided by the 'cached' or 'free' fields, this
field takes into account page cache and also that
not all reclaimable memory slabs will be reclaimed
due to items being in use.
2014-07-11 22:34:06 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
2f96eef7f8 library: reverting tmpfs subtraction from cached (18-FEB-2014)
The subtraction was marked as reinforcing the misconception,
that memory in the page cache can be considered free.
The Cached value is not a sum of page cache and tmpfs,
as the tmpfs memory lives in the page cache and therefore
it's an inseparable part of it.
2014-04-30 13:59:34 +02:00
Jakob Unterwurzacher
3569c0351f library: properly handle memory used by tmpfs
tmpfs has become much more widely used since distributions use it for
/tmp (Fedora 18+). In /proc/meminfo, memory used by tmpfs is accounted
into "Cached" (aka "NR_FILE_PAGES",
 http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/mm/shmem.c#L301 ).

The tools just pass it on, so what top, free and vmstat report as
"cached" is the sum of page cache and tmpfs.

free has the extremely useful "-/+ buffers/cache" output. However, now
that tmpfs is accounted into "cached", those numbers are way off once
you have big files in /tmp.

Fortunately, kernel 2.6.32 introduces "Shmem", which makes tmpfs memory
usage accessible from userspace (
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4b02108ac1b3354a22b0d83c684797692efdc395 ).

This patch substracts Shmem from Cached to get the actual page cache
memory. This makes both issues mentioned above disappear. For older
kernels, Shmem is not available (hence zero) and this patch is no-op.

Additionally:
* Update the man pages of free and vmstat to explain what is happening
* Finally drop "MemShared" from the /proc/meminfo parser, it has been
  dead for 10+ years and is only causing confusion ( removed in kernel
  2.5.54, see
  https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/?id=fe04e9451e5a159247cf9f03c615a4273ac0c571 )
2014-02-27 14:07:10 +01:00
Craig Small
5a34ff0a99 Check for presence of disks in vmstat
vmstat -d or vmstat -p would crash mysteriously under different
circumstances. The problem was eventually tracked down to /sys not
being mounted which meant is_disk() always returned false.
The partition would then be attempted to be linked to a non-existent
disk causing a segfault.

vmstat will now not link to a disk if none exists.
The change in testing will skip those tests when /sys/block doesn't
exist.

Many thanks to Daniel Schepler for his analysis and suggestions.

Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/736628
2014-01-29 22:22:11 +11:00