From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] proc: Factor out an instantiate method from every lookup method.
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:08:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1d5a7r1mc.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060907101835.de6dd2b4.akpm@osdl.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Thu, 7 Sep 2006 10:18:35 -0700")
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
> On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:24:50 -0600
> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>
>> -/* SMP-safe */
>> ...
>> +/* SMP-safe */
>
> Not the most useful comment in the kernel, and probably untrue, given that
> it's /proc ;)
>
> Please feel free to nuke such silliness sometime.
Sure.
I remember thinking about it at some point and deciding it must have been
a left over from when someone was make /proc SMP safe.
One piece at a time. I think I am almost done with the heavy lifting,
and the rest of the pieces can start being little cleanups.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-07 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-06 16:23 [PATCH 1/5] proc: Make the generation of the self symlink table driven Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-06 16:24 ` [PATCH 2/5] proc: Factor out an instantiate method from every lookup method Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-06 16:27 ` [PATCH 3/5] proc: Remove the hard coded inode numbers Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-06 16:28 ` [PATCH 4/5] proc: Merge proc_tid_attr and proc_tgid_attr Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-06 16:31 ` [PATCH 5/5] proc: Use pid_task instead of open coding it Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-07 17:22 ` [PATCH 3/5] proc: Remove the hard coded inode numbers Andrew Morton
2006-09-07 17:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-07 18:06 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-07 18:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-07 17:18 ` [PATCH 2/5] proc: Factor out an instantiate method from every lookup method Andrew Morton
2006-09-07 18:08 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2006-09-07 17:15 ` [PATCH 1/5] proc: Make the generation of the self symlink table driven Andrew Morton
2006-09-07 18:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-08 7:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-08 11:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-08 13:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-08 13:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-08 16:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-09 2:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
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