From: Andrew Morton None of the other /proc/meminfo lines have a space in the identifier. This post-2.6.17 addition has the potential to break existing parsers, so use an underscore instead (like Committed_AS). Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/base/node.c | 2 +- fs/proc/proc_misc.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/proc/proc_misc.c~proc-meminfo-dont-put-spaces-in-names fs/proc/proc_misc.c --- a/fs/proc/proc_misc.c~proc-meminfo-dont-put-spaces-in-names +++ a/fs/proc/proc_misc.c @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ static int meminfo_read_proc(char *page, "Mapped: %8lu kB\n" "Slab: %8lu kB\n" "PageTables: %8lu kB\n" - "NFS Unstable: %8lu kB\n" + "NFS_Unstable: %8lu kB\n" "Bounce: %8lu kB\n" "CommitLimit: %8lu kB\n" "Committed_AS: %8lu kB\n" diff -puN drivers/base/node.c~proc-meminfo-dont-put-spaces-in-names drivers/base/node.c --- a/drivers/base/node.c~proc-meminfo-dont-put-spaces-in-names +++ a/drivers/base/node.c @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ static ssize_t node_read_meminfo(struct "Node %d Mapped: %8lu kB\n" "Node %d AnonPages: %8lu kB\n" "Node %d PageTables: %8lu kB\n" - "Node %d NFS Unstable: %8lu kB\n" + "Node %d NFS_Unstable: %8lu kB\n" "Node %d Bounce: %8lu kB\n" "Node %d Slab: %8lu kB\n", nid, K(i.totalram), _