Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755922Ab2BWR3g (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:29:36 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:43094 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752418Ab2BWR3e (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:29:34 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:30:27 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] treewide: fix memory corruptions when TASK_COMM_LEN != 16 Message-Id: <20120223093027.7dfc90e3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <1327183785-27023-1-git-send-email-jengelh@medozas.de> <20120124135443.2772d455.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20120131172334.7f26f164.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20120131174914.8ce5291d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20120131190109.b53347fd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20120222125810.50cd5789.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20120223015726.cb065d73.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1073 Lines: 28 On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:19:28 +0100 (CET) Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Thursday 2012-02-23 10:57, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> > But there's more, > >> > >> 24931 ? S 0:00 \_ [btrfs-endio-met] > \_ [kconservative/5] > \_ [ext4-dio-unwrit] > >> > >> [with a wondersome patch:] $ grep Name /proc/{29431,29432}/stat* > >> /proc/29431/status:Name: btrfs-endio-meta-1 > >> /proc/29432/status:Name: btrfs-endio-meta-write-1 > Name: kconservative/512 > Name: ext4-dio-unwritten > > > >doh. The fix for that is to have less clueless btrfs developers. > > And truncate their names to SUNWbtfs, ORCLintg and EXT4diou? > I think not :) Teach ps(1) to look in /proc/pid/status for kernel threads? -- 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/