Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752799AbYAWUtA (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:49:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751807AbYAWUsw (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:48:52 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:56342 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751793AbYAWUsv (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:48:51 -0500 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <1201112977.5443.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1201112977.5443.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> To: Matt Helsley Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Andrew Morton , LKML , linux-mm , Al Viro , William H Taber , William Cesar de Oliveira , Richard Kissel , Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix procfs task exe symlink X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0.3+cvs; nmh 1.2-20070115cvs; GNU Emacs 23.0.50 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:46:31 +0000 Message-ID: <22275.1201121191@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 763 Lines: 20 Matt Helsley wrote: > To solve the problem this patch changes the way that the kernel resolves a > task's exe symlink. Instead of walking the VMAs to find the first > executable file-backed VMA we store a reference to the exec'd file in the > mm_struct -- /foo/bar/jvm/bin/java in the example above. Sounds interesting. > nommu-only code paths are untested -- lacking access to nommu system I could test it, but it'll have to wait until I get back from LCA in a couple of weeks time. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/