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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jslaby@suse.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] pty: show associative slave of ptmx in fdinfo
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 16:41:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170717144154.GA26498@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170712193437.3789-1-yamato@redhat.com>

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 04:34:37AM +0900, Masatake YAMATO wrote:
> This patch adds "tty-index" field to /proc/PID/fdinfo/N if N
> specifies /dev/ptmx. The field shows the index of associative
> slave pts.
> 
> Though a minor number is given for each pts instance, ptmx is not.
> It means there is no way in user-space to know the association between
> file descriptors for pts/n and ptmx. (n = 0, 1, ...)
> 
> This is different from pipe. About pipe such association can be solved
> by inode of pipefs.
> 
> Providing the way to know the association between pts/n and ptmx helps
> users understand the status of running system. lsof can utilize this field.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/pty.c          | 12 +++++++++++-
>  drivers/tty/tty_io.c       | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/tty_driver.h |  5 +++++
>  3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/pty.c b/drivers/tty/pty.c
> index 6579957..9357c6a 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/pty.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/pty.c
> @@ -669,6 +669,13 @@ static void pty_unix98_remove(struct tty_driver *driver, struct tty_struct *tty)
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS

There is no real need for all of the #ifdef everywhere here, if PROC_FS
is not enabled, the functions will just not be called, right?

Can you fix this up and resend a new version?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-17 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-12 19:34 [PATCH RESEND] pty: show associative slave of ptmx in fdinfo Masatake YAMATO
2017-07-17 14:41 ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-07-31  0:01   ` [PATCH v2 resend] " Masatake YAMATO
2017-08-14 14:41   ` Masatake YAMATO
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-06-26  9:05 [PATCH RESEND] " Masatake YAMATO
2017-06-11 16:13 Masatake YAMATO

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