Hi...

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 16:10, Sumit Sharma <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for your inputs. You are righ that get_pid() just increments one 
> atomic counter, so this should not be the culprit, but could you please let 
> me know if tast_pid(current) might cause the process to become invisible?

Please don't do top posting...

About task_pid (you mean this right? not tast_pid(), I see nothing
suspicious there:
static inline struct pid *task_pid(struct task_struct *task)
{
return task->pids[PIDTYPE_PID].pid;
}

(quoted from http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.27.46/include/linux/sched.h#L1353)

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