Re: [PATCH 10/10] Use down_read_critical() for /sys/<pid>/exe and /sys/<pid>/maps files
From: Michel Lespinasse
Date: Thu May 20 2010 - 22:44:23 EST
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:21 AM, David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 0 0 10 2 1 s 2/2 0 0 2217200 636227 210255
> 0 0 10 2 1 s 2/2 0 0 2217903 629175 212926
> 0 0 10 2 1 s 2/2 0 0 2224136 647912 212506
>
> Feel free to have a play.
Thanks for sharing your testing code.
> BTW, the code also works on FRV in NOMMU mode (which uses the spinlock-based
> rwsem version).
Yes, I made sure to keep the generic (and non-x86 asm) versions
working by always separating x86 specific changes from the rest.
> However... I'm not certain that giving a process that's accessing
> /proc/pid/maps priority over a second process that may be trying to do mmap or
> page fault or something internally is a good idea.
One thing to keep in mind if you're concerned about the higher
priority is that these /proc files are still not open to everyone - a
user can't read the /proc/<pid>/exe and /proc/<pid>/maps files for
another user's processes unless he's got CAP_SYS_PTRACE priviledges.
--
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.
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