Re: [PATCH 00/23] proc cleanup.

[Eric W. Biederman]

Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>>
>> When working on pid namespaces I keep tripping over /proc.
>>  It's hard coded inode numbers and the amount of cruft
>>  accumulated over the years makes it hard to deal with.
>> 
>>  So to put /proc out of my misery here is a series of patches that
>>  removes the worst of the warts.
>
> An additional 2.7k of vmlinux.  A shame.

Yes.  I guess so.

You want me to run the bloat-o-meter and see
if I can see where the size increase comes from?

Looking at the diffstat there was barely a code size
increase.

 fs/exec.c                 |    9
 fs/proc/base.c            | 2374 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 fs/proc/inode.c           |   11
 fs/proc/internal.h        |   23
 fs/proc/root.c            |   13
 fs/proc/task_mmu.c        |  101 +
 fs/proc/task_nommu.c      |   21
 include/linux/init_task.h |    1
 include/linux/pid.h       |    4
 include/linux/proc_fs.h   |   26
 include/linux/sched.h     |    3
 include/linux/task_ref.h  |   69 +
 kernel/Makefile           |    2
 kernel/exit.c             |   12
 kernel/fork.c             |   10
 kernel/pid.c              |   12
 kernel/task_ref.c         |  131 ++
 mm/mempolicy.c            |    6
 18 files changed, 1533 insertions(+), 1295 deletions(-)


Eric





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