From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND][PATCH] Mark thread stack correctly in proc/<pid>/maps
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:00:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120222150010.c784b29b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAHN_R1Ho-JNLSKXM_3uU8nTpFHr87ujUEoFJChjZyk4iBYzjA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:54:04 +0530
Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Stack for a new thread is mapped by userspace code and passed via
> sys_clone. This memory is currently seen as anonymous in
> /proc/<pid>/maps, which makes it difficult to ascertain which mappings
> are being used for thread stacks. This patch uses the individual task
> stack pointers to determine which vmas are actually thread stacks.
>
> The display for maps, smaps and numa_maps is now different at the
> thread group (/proc/PID/maps) and thread (/proc/PID/task/TID/maps)
> levels. The idea is to give the mapping as the individual tasks see it
> in /proc/PID/task/TID/maps and then give an overview of the entire mm
> as it were, in /proc/PID/maps.
>
> At the thread group level, all vmas that are used as stacks are marked
> as such. At the thread level however, only the stack that the task in
> question uses is marked as such and all others (including the main
> stack) are marked as anonymous memory.
Please flesh this description out with specific examples of the
before-and-after contents of all the applicable procfs files. This way
we can clearly see the proposed interface changes, which is the thing
we care most about with such a patch.
The patch itself has been utterly and hopelessly mangled by gmail.
Please fix that up when resending (as a last resort: use a text/plain
attachment).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-22 23:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-14 12:35 [PATCH] Mark thread stack correctly in proc/<pid>/maps Siddhesh Poyarekar
2012-01-16 11:28 ` Jamie Lokier
2012-01-16 13:08 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2012-01-16 16:31 ` Jamie Lokier
2012-01-16 17:01 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2012-01-17 4:54 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2012-02-02 6:24 ` [RESEND][PATCH] " Siddhesh Poyarekar
2012-02-02 21:40 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-02-03 7:09 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2012-02-03 8:01 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-02-03 9:49 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2012-02-03 10:29 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-02-03 18:34 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2012-02-08 4:00 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2012-02-08 17:57 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-02-11 10:19 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2012-02-11 15:03 ` [PATCH] " Siddhesh Poyarekar
2012-02-21 4:24 ` [RESEND][PATCH] " Siddhesh Poyarekar
2012-02-22 23:00 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-02-23 4:03 ` [PATCH] " Siddhesh Poyarekar
2012-02-23 20:22 ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-24 13:05 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2012-02-23 23:47 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-02-24 5:47 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2012-02-24 16:12 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-02-24 18:23 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2012-02-23 23:17 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-02-24 0:49 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-02-24 5:29 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2012-02-24 16:14 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-02-24 18:58 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
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