Re: [PATCH v2] proc: Simplify and fix proc by removing the kernel mount

2018-06-17 Thread Alistair Strachan
Hi Eric, Thanks a lot for looking into this problem. On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 7:55 PM Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > Today there are three users of proc_mnt. > - The legacy sysctl system call implementation. > - The uml mconsole driver. > - The process cleanup function proc_flush_task. > > The

Re: [PATCH v2] proc: Simplify and fix proc by removing the kernel mount

2018-06-17 Thread Alistair Strachan
Hi Eric, Thanks a lot for looking into this problem. On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 7:55 PM Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > Today there are three users of proc_mnt. > - The legacy sysctl system call implementation. > - The uml mconsole driver. > - The process cleanup function proc_flush_task. > > The

[PATCH v2] proc: Simplify and fix proc by removing the kernel mount

2018-06-16 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Today there are three users of proc_mnt. - The legacy sysctl system call implementation. - The uml mconsole driver. - The process cleanup function proc_flush_task. The first two are slow path and essentially unused. I expect soon we will be able to remove the legacy sysctl system call

[PATCH v2] proc: Simplify and fix proc by removing the kernel mount

2018-06-16 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Today there are three users of proc_mnt. - The legacy sysctl system call implementation. - The uml mconsole driver. - The process cleanup function proc_flush_task. The first two are slow path and essentially unused. I expect soon we will be able to remove the legacy sysctl system call