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SubjectRe: [Patch] sysinfo compatibility
On Tue Aug 21, 2001 at 07:30:04PM +0200, Christoph Rohland wrote:
> And I have somewhat harder feelings since we get a lot of bug reports
> that our installer only detects 0M RAM when running on a 2.4 machine
> while it works with the 2.2 kernel. We are talking about an ABI which
> is directly imported into user space programs.

Its your lucky day. Put something like this in your installer,
and your problems will go away:

/* Include our own copy of struct sysinfo to avoid binary compatibility
* problems with Linux 2.4, which changed things. Grumble, grumble. */
struct sysinfo {
long uptime; /* Seconds since boot */
unsigned long loads[3]; /* 1, 5, and 15 minute load averages */
unsigned long totalram; /* Total usable main memory size */
unsigned long freeram; /* Available memory size */
unsigned long sharedram; /* Amount of shared memory */
unsigned long bufferram; /* Memory used by buffers */
unsigned long totalswap; /* Total swap space size */
unsigned long freeswap; /* swap space still available */
unsigned short procs; /* Number of current processes */
unsigned short pad; /* Padding needed for m68k */
unsigned long totalhigh; /* Total high memory size */
unsigned long freehigh; /* Available high memory size */
unsigned int mem_unit; /* Memory unit size in bytes */
char _f[20-2*sizeof(long)-sizeof(int)]; /* Padding: libc5 uses this.. */
};
extern int sysinfo (struct sysinfo* info);


/* How much memory does this machine have?
Units are kBytes to avoid overflow on 4GB machines */
static int check_free_memory()
{
struct sysinfo info;
unsigned int result, u, s=10;

if (sysinfo(&info) != 0) {
fprintf(stderr,"Error checking free memory");
return -1;
}

/* Kernels 2.0.x and 2.2.x return info.mem_unit==0 with values in bytes.
* Kernels 2.4.0 return info.mem_unit in bytes. */
u = info.mem_unit;
if (u==0) u=1;
while ( (u&1) == 0 && s > 0 ) { u>>=1; s--; }
result = (info.totalram>>s) + (info.totalswap>>s);
result = result*u;
if (result < 0) result = INT_MAX;
return result;
}

-Erik

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