From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755802AbZKIR0r (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:26:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755151AbZKIR0q (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:26:46 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:41036 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755097AbZKIR0q (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:26:46 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 09:26:05 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Jiri Slaby cc: Oleg Nesterov , Ingo Molnar , Neil Horman , Stephen Rothwell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, marcin.slusarz@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] extend get/setrlimit to support setting rlimits external to a process (v7) In-Reply-To: <4AF84E2F.3010305@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <20091102152520.GG23776@elte.hu> <20091102175407.GE4075@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <20091102185137.GA28803@elte.hu> <20091103002355.GB19891@localhost.localdomain> <20091104112632.GA9243@elte.hu> <20091105204843.GA2980@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <20091106092600.GC22505@elte.hu> <4AF7D8C2.60807@gmail.com> <20091109090143.GB24020@elte.hu> <4AF83B9A.60702@gmail.com> <20091109164053.GB5160@redhat.com> <4AF84E2F.3010305@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, Jiri Slaby wrote: > On 11/09/2009 05:40 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > Also, I don't understand why wthis code get's both pid and task_struct(). > > And what do you suggest? I, with my knowledge and after fast > investigation, see no other option. Isn't task = find_task_by_vpid(pid); what you want? Linus