Re: [RFC] fs, proc: Introduce /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/childrenentry v6

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 01/19, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 04:55:29PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > Thinking more... I am not sure, but do we really need
> > proc_pid_children_iter at all??
> >
> > It is very possibly I missed something, but we can get both
> > parent_pid and pid_ns from inode, right? so can't we just remember
> > inode in seq->private?
>
> Good point. Letme check if we will need to call for ihold then...
> (/me scratchig the head)

Why? file/inode can't go away, at least until this fd is closed.

And just in case, get_pid(proc_pid(inode)) is not needed, even in v6/v7.
I didn't realize this.

Cyrill, I won't argue if you prefer to make this in a separate patch
(of course, assuming you are agree) on top of v7, to me it looks
"good enough".

Oleg.

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