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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: eranian@googlemail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	mingo@elte.hu, x86@kernel.org, andi@firstfloor.org,
	eranian@gmail.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au
Subject: Re: [patch 02/24] perfmon: base code
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:23:56 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0811271202240.3325@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <492d0bd8.11435e0a.1686.ffff8801@mx.google.com>

Stephane,

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, eranian@googlemail.com wrote:

> +/*
> + * pfmfs should _never_ be mounted by userland - too much of security hassle,
> + * no real gain from having the whole whorehouse mounted. So we don't need
> + * any operations on the root directory. However, we need a non-trivial
> + * d_name - pfm: will go nicely and kill the special-casing in procfs.
> + */

Can we please use anon_inodefs instead of creating a new one ? It's
exaclty for this purpose.

See fs/anon_inodes.c and fs/timerfd.c for an usage example.

Thanks,

	tglx

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-27 11:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-26  8:42 eranian
2008-11-26 11:17 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 11:23 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2008-11-27 17:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27 17:47   ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 18:28     ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27 18:41       ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 18:36         ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27 18:54           ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 18:51       ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 19:35         ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27 19:49           ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 20:59             ` Thomas Gleixner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-11-25 21:35 eranian

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