Hi, just a quick update. After about two weeks, various counters have exceeded the 32 bit int limit, and haven't wrapped. There might eventually be some issues with the field width but that will take a long time to reach.
Regards, Anindya On Sat, Jul 03, 2021 at 11:20:42AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2021/07/03 01:09, Anindya Mukherjee wrote: > > Thanks for the discussion. This has been very illuminating. I have been > > digging > > around in /usr/src/ and ignoring the atomic architectures (where I got > > stuck) it > > looks like it should be possible to use uint64_t everywhere. I'm playing > > with > > some changes on my machine to see if I can get at least systat(1) and > > vmstat(8) > > to work with uint64_t. The ddb printer (uvmexp_print)is another consumer. > > > > If it works in the base system then ideally every relevant port should be > > updated to be consistent. That is indeed quite a big change; more than I > > realised so thanks for setting me straight on that. > > We have coped with bigger changes in structs like this before, > it didn't used to be too difficult, but that was before go... >
