Re: [PATCH -mm] remove node_ prefix_from ns subsystem

Paul Menage
2008-05-22T07:12:41Z

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> --- 2.6.26-rc2-mm1.orig/kernel/cgroup.c
>> +++ 2.6.26-rc2-mm1/kernel/cgroup.c
>> @@ -2903,7 +2903,7 @@ int cgroup_clone(struct task_struct *tsk
>> cg = tsk->cgroups;
>> parent = task_cgroup(tsk, subsys->subsys_id);
>>
>> - snprintf(nodename, MAX_CGROUP_TYPE_NAMELEN, "node_%d", tsk->pid);
>> + snprintf(nodename, MAX_CGROUP_TYPE_NAMELEN, "%d", tsk->pid);
>>
>> /* Pin the hierarchy */
>> atomic_inc(&parent->root->sb->s_active);
>
> This is user-visible, isn't it? Been there since October. How can we
> safely change it now?

It is user-visible, but I'd be extremely surprised if anyone was
depending on it or even using it at this point.

Paul