Re: [PATCH] tools/vm/slabinfo-gnuplot: Use "grep -E" instead of "egrep"

[Andrew Morton]

On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 10:36:59 +0800 Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The latest version of grep claims the egrep is now obsolete so the build
> now contains warnings that look like:
> 	egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
> fix this up by moving the related file to use "grep -E" instead.
> 
>   sed -i "s/egrep/grep -E/g" `grep egrep -rwl tools/vm`
> 
> Here are the steps to install the latest grep:
> 
>   wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-3.8.tar.gz
>   tar xf grep-3.8.tar.gz
>   cd grep-3.8 && ./configure && make
>   sudo make install
>   export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
> 
> ...
>
> --- a/tools/vm/slabinfo-gnuplot.sh
> +++ b/tools/vm/slabinfo-gnuplot.sh
> @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ do_preprocess()
>  	let lines=3
>  	out=`basename "$in"`"-slabs-by-loss"
>  	`cat "$in" | grep -A "$lines" 'Slabs sorted by loss' |\
> -		egrep -iv '\-\-|Name|Slabs'\
> +		grep -E -iv '\-\-|Name|Slabs'\
>  		| awk '{print $1" "$4+$2*$3" "$4}' > "$out"`
>  	if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
>  		do_slabs_plotting "$out"
> @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ do_preprocess()
>  	let lines=3
>  	out=`basename "$in"`"-slabs-by-size"
>  	`cat "$in" | grep -A "$lines" 'Slabs sorted by size' |\
> -		egrep -iv '\-\-|Name|Slabs'\
> +		grep -E -iv '\-\-|Name|Slabs'\
>  		| awk '{print $1" "$4" "$4-$2*$3}' > "$out"`
>  	if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
>  		do_slabs_plotting "$out"

Thanks.  I'll add a cc:stable to this, in an attempt to make older
kernels work well with newer toolchains.