delayacct: alignment changes break iotop

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Mon Dec 13 2010 - 06:38:06 EST


Iotop uses hardcoded offsets to find the taskstats struct members.
This got changed in 2.6.37 so it now iotop doesn't work on amd64. The
offending commit is:

commit 85893120699f8bae8caa12a8ee18ab5fceac978e
Author: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Oct 27 15:34:43 2010 -0700

delayacct: align to 8 byte boundary on 64-bit systems

Brian Rogers gets the reported-by tag. The bugzilla entry is:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24272

regards,
dan carpenter
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