Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix procfs task exe symlink | Date | Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:46:31 +0000 |
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Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> To solve the problem this patch changes the way that the kernel resolves a > task's exe symlink. Instead of walking the VMAs to find the first > executable file-backed VMA we store a reference to the exec'd file in the > mm_struct -- /foo/bar/jvm/bin/java in the example above.
Sounds interesting.
> nommu-only code paths are untested -- lacking access to nommu system
I could test it, but it'll have to wait until I get back from LCA in a couple of weeks time.
David
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