Re: [PATCH] Introduce ActivePid: in /proc/self/status (v2, wasVpid:)

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 06/16, Louis Rilling wrote:
>
> On 16/06/11 15:00 +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> > peeking into pid->numbers.
>
> It ends like open-coding an optimized version of task_pid_vnr(). If the
> optimization is really important (I guess this depends on the depth of recursive
> pid namespaces), it would be better to re-write task_pid_vnr().

No, task_pid_vnr(p) is different, it should use the caller's namespace.

Just in case, I agree there is no need to optimize this code. The simpler
the better. I mentioned pid->numbers[pid->level] just to point that all
we need is task_pid() itself, there are no subtle races which need the
locking.

Oleg.

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