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Fix OID format for `vm.swap_reserved` and `vm.swap_total`
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Authored by ngie on Apr 11 2022, 12:35 AM.
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Summary

The correct OID format for CTLTYPE_U64 is QU (uquad_t), not A
(text expressed via char *).

This issue was noticed while doing an sysctl tree walk using a
sysctl(9) consumer that relies on the OID format to intuit what the
type should be for a given sysctl.

MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: DellEMC Isilon

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