On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 03:07 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 07:00:12PM -0700, Matt Helsley wrote:
> > This patch avoids holding the mmap semaphore while walking VMAs in response
> > to
> > programs which read or follow the /proc//exe symlink. This also
> > allows
> > us to merge
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 19:21 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:00:12 -0700 Matt Helsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > This patch avoids holding the mmap semaphore while walking VMAs in response
> > to
> > programs which read or follow the /proc//exe symlink. This also
> >
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:00:12 -0700 Matt Helsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This patch avoids holding the mmap semaphore while walking VMAs in response to
> programs which read or follow the /proc//exe symlink. This also
> allows
> us to merge mmu and nommu proc_exe_link() functions. The costs
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 07:00:12PM -0700, Matt Helsley wrote:
> This patch avoids holding the mmap semaphore while walking VMAs in response to
> programs which read or follow the /proc//exe symlink. This also
> allows
> us to merge mmu and nommu proc_exe_link() functions. The costs are holding
This patch avoids holding the mmap semaphore while walking VMAs in response to
programs which read or follow the /proc//exe symlink. This also allows
us to merge mmu and nommu proc_exe_link() functions. The costs are holding the
task lock, a separate reference to the executable file stored in the
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