From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] proc cleanup.
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:26:15 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060227152615.GA19025@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1oe0yhy1w.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com):
>
> 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.
-serge
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-27 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-23 15:52 [PATCH 00/23] proc cleanup Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 15:54 ` [PATCH 01/23] tref: Implement task references Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 15:56 ` [PATCH 02/23] proc: Fix the .. inode number on /proc/<pid>/fd Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 15:57 ` [PATCH 03/23] proc: Remove useless BKL in proc_pid_readlink Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 15:58 ` [PATCH 04/23] proc: Remove unnecessary and misleading assignments from proc_pid_make_inode Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 16:00 ` [PATCH 05/23] proc: Simplify the ownership rules for /proc Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 16:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 16:04 ` [PATCH 06/23] proc: Replace proc_inode.type with proc_inode.fd Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 16:05 ` [PATCH 07/23] proc: Remove bogus proc_task_permission Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 16:06 ` [PATCH 08/23] proc: Kill proc_mem_inode_operations Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 16:08 ` [PATCH 09/23] proc: Properly filter out files that are not visible to a process Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 16:10 ` [PATCH 10/23] proc: Fix the link count for /proc/<pid>/task Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 16:12 ` [PATCH 11/23] proc: Move proc_maps_operations into task_mmu.c Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 16:15 ` [PATCH 12/23] proc: Rewrite the proc dentry flush on exit optimization Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 16:16 ` [PATCH 13/23] proc: Close the race of a process dying durning lookup Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 16:18 ` [PATCH 14/23] proc: Make PROC_NUMBUF the buffer size for holding a integers as strings Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 16:20 ` [PATCH 15/23] proc: refactor reading directories of tasks Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 16:23 ` [PATCH 16/23] proc: Don't lock task_structs indefinitely Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 16:24 ` [PATCH 17/23] proc: Give the root directory a task Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 16:25 ` [PATCH 18/23] proc: Reorder the functions in base.c Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 16:27 ` [PATCH 19/23] proc: Modify proc_pident_lookup to be completely table driven Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 16:28 ` [PATCH 20/23] proc: Make the generation of the self symlink " Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 16:30 ` [PATCH 21/23] proc: Factor out an instantiate method from every lookup method Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 16:32 ` [PATCH 22/23] proc: Remove the hard coded inode numbers Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 16:34 ` [PATCH 23/23] proc: Merge proc_tid_attr and proc_tgid_attr Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-23 16:49 ` [PATCH 01/23] tref: Implement task references Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-02 19:16 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-03-02 20:37 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-03-02 22:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-03 16:56 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-03-03 17:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-04 11:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-04 12:31 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-03-04 17:30 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-03-06 21:06 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-03-06 22:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-07 20:44 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-03-07 1:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-07 20:38 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-03-07 13:12 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-07 21:02 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-03-07 23:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-03 19:23 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-03-04 10:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-25 12:27 ` [PATCH 00/23] proc cleanup Andrew Morton
2006-02-25 13:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-25 15:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-27 15:26 ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2006-02-27 15:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
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