Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754046Ab1DTAKY (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:10:24 -0400 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:36788 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753440Ab1DTAKX (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:10:23 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.64,242,1301900400"; d="scan'208";a="735782839" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] export kernel call get_task_comm(). From: J Freyensee Reply-To: james_p_freyensee@linux.intel.com To: David Rientjes Cc: gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, suhail.ahmed@intel.com, christophe.guerard@intel.com In-Reply-To: References: <1303253889-10074-2-git-send-email-james_p_freyensee@linux.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:10:22 -0700 Message-ID: <1303258222.13457.42.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.2 (2.28.2-1.fc12) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1483 Lines: 32 On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 16:22 -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, james_p_freyensee@linux.intel.com wrote: > > > From: J Freyensee > > > > This allows drivers who call this function to be compiled modularly. > > Otherwise, a driver who is interested in this type of functionality > > has to implement their own get_task_comm() call, causing code > > duplication in the Linux source tree. > > > > Signed-off-by: J Freyensee > > Acked-by: David Rientjes > > There've been some other patchsets proposed recently that need to print a > thread's comm and since /proc/pid/comm can change the comm's of other > threads out from under them, it's necessary to serialize access to it with > task_lock(). This patch certainly makes it easier for modules to do so > correctly, thanks! Thanks for the compliment; it's appreciated. I've made my patch sets independent from one another. And I believe a common consensus (at least with Greg KH, Alan C., Arjan VdV and myself) was achieved that this is a good patch to apply? So maybe this can be applied to the kernel, independent of my other patches, so this will fit your needs? -- 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/