Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] PF_flags cleaups

Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-20T18:03:59Z

On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 09:15 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > One point though, I noticed we actually expose p->flags to userspace,
> > which basically makes PF_flags an ABI, do we care?
>
> Hmm. Where? And no, I don't think we care. But let's keep it in mind
> if something subtle breaks in surprising ways.

fs/proc/array.c:do_task_stat()

I'll rework the patches and simply move the bits around to another
field. We'll see what falls over.. :-)