Bug#536860: linux-image-2.6.26-2-sparc64: Kernel unaligned access at TPC[48bf10] __delayacct_add_tsk+0x48/0x15c

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Paul Wise wrote:

> I tried to backport the iotop fixes to 0.4 but there were some merge
> conflicts so I abandoned that effort for now.

(Applying a7334ca3 ("Removing dead code") along with 08211d20 and
7f1773e7 seems to do it fwiw.)

> If you use a newer kernel than squeeze, you should use backports iotop.

Right --- since the kernel change breaks ABI, I think we shouldn't
backport it to squeeze.  If the dmesg spam and slow unaligned accesses
start to hurt, it's not hard to use a newer kernel and backports
iotop.

Thanks, that helped.