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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] treewide: fix memory corruptions when TASK_COMM_LEN != 16
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:30:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120223093027.7dfc90e3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1202231152280.9220@frira.zrqbmnf.qr>

On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:19:28 +0100 (CET) Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> wrote:

> 
> On Thursday 2012-02-23 10:57, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >>
> But there's more,
> >> 
> >> 24931 ?        S      0:00  \_ [btrfs-endio-met]
>                                \_ [kconservative/5]
>                                \_ [ext4-dio-unwrit]
> >> 
> >> [with a wondersome patch:] $ grep Name /proc/{29431,29432}/stat*
> >> /proc/29431/status:Name: btrfs-endio-meta-1
> >> /proc/29432/status:Name: btrfs-endio-meta-write-1
>                       Name: kconservative/512
>                       Name: ext4-dio-unwritten
> >
> >doh.  The fix for that is to have less clueless btrfs developers.
> 
> And truncate their names to SUNWbtfs, ORCLintg and EXT4diou?
> I think not :)

Teach ps(1) to look in /proc/pid/status for kernel threads?

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-23 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-21 22:09 [PATCH 1/2] treewide: fix memory corruptions when TASK_COMM_LEN != 16 Jan Engelhardt
2012-01-21 22:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] treewide: avoid truncation of process name Jan Engelhardt
2012-01-24 21:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] treewide: fix memory corruptions when TASK_COMM_LEN != 16 Andrew Morton
2012-02-01  1:15   ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-02-01  1:23     ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-01  1:35       ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-02-01  1:49         ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-01  2:15           ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-02-01  3:01             ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-22 12:48               ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-02-22 20:58                 ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-23  9:09                   ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-02-23  9:57                     ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-23 11:19                       ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-02-23 17:30                         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-02-23 21:59                           ` Jan Engelhardt

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