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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: [patch] procfs/procps threading performance speedup, 2.5.62
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Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
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> Note that the recent /proc/*/wchan addition was botched.
> Caching is prevented due to race conditions. This could
> be fixed by changing the file format to contain:
>     number, function name

There is not enough detail here for it to be fixed.

What are the race conditions?

What is "number"?

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