From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
William H Taber <wtaber@us.ibm.com>,
William Cesar de Oliveira <owilliam@br.ibm.com>,
Richard Kissel <rkissel@us.ibm.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix procfs task exe symlink
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:46:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <22275.1201121191@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1201112977.5443.29.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> To solve the problem this patch changes the way that the kernel resolves a
> task's exe symlink. Instead of walking the VMAs to find the first
> executable file-backed VMA we store a reference to the exec'd file in the
> mm_struct -- /foo/bar/jvm/bin/java in the example above.
Sounds interesting.
> nommu-only code paths are untested -- lacking access to nommu system
I could test it, but it'll have to wait until I get back from LCA in a couple
of weeks time.
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-23 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-23 18:29 [PATCH] Fix procfs task exe symlink Matt Helsley
2008-01-23 19:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-25 0:09 ` Erez Zadok
2008-01-23 19:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-01-23 20:46 ` David Howells [this message]
2008-01-27 6:03 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-29 0:18 ` Matt Helsley
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