Re: [rfc 2/3] fs, proc: Introduce the Children: line in /proc/<pid>/status

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

Hello, Cyrill.

On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 01:54:34PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> Index: linux-2.6.git/fs/proc/array.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.git.orig/fs/proc/array.c
> +++ linux-2.6.git/fs/proc/array.c
> @@ -547,3 +547,17 @@ int proc_pid_statm(struct seq_file *m, s
>  
>  	return 0;
>  }
> +
> +int proc_pid_children(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
> +		      struct pid *pid, struct task_struct *task)
> +{
> +	struct task_struct *c;
> +
> +	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
> +	list_for_each_entry(c, &task->children, sibling)
> +		seq_printf(m, " %d", pid_nr_ns(task_pid(c), ns));
> +	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> +	seq_putc(m, '\n');
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}

I don't think using non-seekable single seqfile is a good idea here.
It works if the whole list fits in PAGE_SIZE but assuming five digit
pid, that's only ~680 pids.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun