From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/12] tty layer and misc struct pid conversions
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:54:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m164cfpa8x.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061213141036.f8cac5e7.akpm@osdl.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:10:36 -0800")
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:03:39 -0700
> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>
>> The aim of this patch set is to start wrapping up the struct pid
>> conversions.
>
> hm, it touches a lot of tricky code which few people are familar
> with. Worried.
Reasonable concern. The good thing is that the only big change was that
struct pid is reference counted while old style pids are not. Which
means that most of the pieces are simple substitutions. Although I admit
checking that the reference is correct especially in the tty layer
is tricky.
Eric
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-14 0:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-13 11:03 Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-13 11:07 ` [PATCH 1/12] tty: Make __proc_set_tty static Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-13 11:07 ` [PATCH 2/12] tty: Clarify disassociate_ctty Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-13 11:07 ` [PATCH 3/12] tty: Fix the locking for signal->session in disassociate_ctty Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-13 11:07 ` [PATCH 4/12] signal: Use kill_pgrp not kill_pg in the sunos compatibility code Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-13 11:07 ` [PATCH 5/12] signal: Rewrite kill_something_info so it uses newer helpers Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-13 11:07 ` [PATCH 6/12] pid: Make session_of_pgrp use struct pid instead of pid_t Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-13 11:07 ` [PATCH 7/12] pid: Use struct pid for talking about process groups in exit.c Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-13 11:07 ` [PATCH 8/12] pid: Replace is_orphaned_pgrp with is_current_pgrp_orphaned Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-13 11:07 ` [PATCH 9/12] tty: Update the tty layer to work with struct pid Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-13 11:07 ` [PATCH 10/12] pid: Replace do/while_each_task_pid with do/while_each_pid_task Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-13 11:07 ` [PATCH 11/12] pid: Remove now unused do_each_task_pid and while_each_task_pid Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-13 11:07 ` [PATCH 12/12] pid: Remove the now unused kill_pg kill_pg_info and __kill_pg_info Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-13 22:10 ` [PATCH 0/12] tty layer and misc struct pid conversions Andrew Morton
2006-12-14 0:54 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
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