From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mark timer_stats as incompatible with multiple pid namespaces
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:01:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071213090102.GB1926@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m13au7tsov.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> /proc/timer_stats currently reports the user of a timer by pid, which
> is a reasonable approach. However if you are not in the initial pid
> namespace the pid that is reported is nonsense.
>
> Therefore until we can make timer_stats pid namespace safe just
> disable it in the build if pid namespace support is selected so we at
> least know we have a conflict.
What the heck??? Please solve this properly instead of hiding it.
/proc/timer_stats is damn useful and it's a must-have for powertop to
work.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-13 9:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-12 23:10 Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-13 9:01 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-12-13 11:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-13 13:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-13 17:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-13 20:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-13 21:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-13 21:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-13 21:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
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