Gosh, just because nobody uses some newlib provision I
guess, since it is being offered, it ought to actually
be tested at some point. Well, that point just arrived
and guess what? A surprise: some bugs were discovered.
The procps_pids_select function established a for loop
wherein readproc is called until the passed 'maxthese'
limit. Unfortunately this was incorrect for 2 reasons:
1. For PROCPS_FILL_PID results are limited by what the
oldlib finds, having established the pid list at open.
Total found already cannot exceed a passed 'maxthese';
2. With PROCPS_FILL_UID, returned results could exceed
a 'maxthese' thus making the for loop incorrect again.
[ plus yours truly neglected to forward the required ]
[ UIDs total to our old library, another oops biggie ]
In summary: the loop should have been forever, exiting
only when all those identified procs had been located.
So, while addressing those bugs, I've consolidated all
the retrieval code (initialize, iterate, summarize) in
a single helper function which will now serve both the
procps_pids_reap and select functions. And as a result
those guys were reduced to quite trivial housekeeping.
This patch, hopefully, completes the normalization for
reap/select (fill), which began with references shown.
Reference(s):
commit 0c953eccc5
commit 747dfc5987
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This patch contains the following minor modifications:
. When assigning to boot_seconds from a double, a cast
to 'unsigned long' was employed that in reality should
have been 'unsigned long long'. But, on second thought
it's probably best if the compiler makes the decision.
. Results for ID_TGID do not require an 'f_status' flg
since both tid and tgid will be available by virtue of
the 'simple_nextpid' function normal operations. Thus,
that flag has been removed from the <pids> Item_table.
. When the pids_stacks structure was eliminated with a
change to the alloc/dealloc functions in the reference
below, several casts became redundant and are removed.
Reference(s):
commit 747dfc5987.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
After simplifying that select/fill interface, there is
no longer a need for public 'alloc' & 'dealloc' stacks
functions. There is now only one instance of stacks as
an input parameter found in procps_pids_stacks_sort().
But sorting 'empty' stacks serves no possible purpose.
So this commit retains both functions, since they will
still be needed, but designates them private (static).
Additionally, with their demise we will eliminate that
pids_stacks structure from the header file, internally
using what always was the true 'stacks_extent' struct.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
After wrestling with the conversion of both top and ps
the differences between reap (all) & fill (select) has
become increasingly inconvenient. So this patch simply
normalizes that API making returned results identical.
The former procps_pids_stacks_fill identifier will now
be known as procps_pids_select which serves as logical
counterpart to the existing procps_pids_reap function.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Shoot, here's yet another bow to ps needs. But it's ok
because it makes a lot of sense. Rather than force all
users into their own calculations do but it once here.
As an aside this need arose during ps testing when the
sorts were using TIME_START or TICS_ALL. That was just
fine for almost every need except 'etime' plus 'time'.
That 'etime' was sorting the opposite of what's wanted
when using TIME_START (of course) while 'time' yielded
some weird ordering because TICS_ALL was too granular.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
While not documented in the man page, ps allows 'tty4'
as a valid output specifier complimenting 'tty8' & its
derivatives. So, in order to eliminate a dev_to_name()
call in the ps program the library will now offer this
abbreviated tty version (consisting of a number only).
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The 'PROCPS_PIDS_extra' enumerator already enjoys some
special place wherein it's zeroed with each iteration.
This patch simply extends the special handling to also
include support for sorting. It will be treated as the
'ull_int' data type, since that encompasses the entire
scope of that union within all pids_result structures.
[ plus, we've also corrected the actual 'extra' name ]
This change was prompted by the conversion of ps which
needs that enumerator to store the former 'pcpu' data,
so it will be available for sorting (not for display).
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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>
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.
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
[ 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>
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>
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.
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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.
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
. 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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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 aab537bc13http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/newlib-interfaces
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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>
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>
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>
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.
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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,3http://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>
