From a6810bb6ecf23f0747ea41038635f6706d8fae59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Legner <markus@mystenlabs.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:53:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] processmetrics: explicit type conversion to support arm64

---
 pkg/private/processmetrics/processmetrics_linux.go | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pkg/private/processmetrics/processmetrics_linux.go b/pkg/private/processmetrics/processmetrics_linux.go
index 3132fa6251..2953df24e3 100644
--- a/pkg/private/processmetrics/processmetrics_linux.go
+++ b/pkg/private/processmetrics/processmetrics_linux.go
@@ -123,7 +123,8 @@ func (c *procStatCollector) updateStat() error {
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	newCount := taskStat.Nlink - 2
+	//nolint:unconvert // this is required for arm64 support
+	newCount := uint64(taskStat.Nlink - 2)
 	if newCount != c.lastTaskCount {
 		c.taskListUpdates++
 		c.myProcs, err = procfs.AllThreads(c.myPid)