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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] proc: intoduce proc_inode->pid_entry and
	is_tgid_pid_entry()
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 16:28:50 +0200
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On 08/09, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 08:57:47PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> ...
> > +++ b/fs/proc/inode.c
> > @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ static struct inode *proc_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
> >  	ei->pde = NULL;
> >  	ei->sysctl = NULL;
> >  	ei->sysctl_entry = NULL;
> > +	ei->pid_entry = NULL;
> >  	ei->ns.ns = NULL;
> >  	ei->ns.ns_ops = NULL;
> >  	inode = &ei->vfs_inode;
>
> Hi Oleg, sorry for not responding to previous emails, will try to review this
> things tomorrow (from a glance looks quite good!). Btw, this moment strike my
> eyes -- why don't we use kmem_cache_zalloc here but do assign nils again and
> again, maybe worth to address as well?

Probably because this doesn't make sense to nullify proc_inode->vfs_inode,
it will be reinitialized at least by inode_init_always() anyway.

Oleg.