Re: [PATCH 00/23] proc cleanup.

[Eric W. Biederman]

"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx):
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> The first patch which introduces task_refs is used later to address
>> one of the worst faults how much low kernel memory it allows
>
> Glad to see the task_refs patches in particular resubmitted.
>
> This is a long set including some big patches, so it's hard to just
> sit down and audit for errors, but looking at before- and after- they
> look nice.
>
> Resulting kernel passes ltp stresstests and zseries.

Very oddly there was a hickup the first time I sent them to Andrew.
So I am resending in to Andrew in slightly smaller chunks.
So far so good...

Eric
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