Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:26:21 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Mark timer_stats as incompatible with multiple pid namespaces |
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* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> > the problem is, this interface stores historic PIDs too - i.e. PIDs > > of tasks that might have exited already. > > Well struct pid * works in that case if you grab the reference to it.
but the display of the stats might happen much later. The point of this API is to save pid+comm, which gives users a good idea about what caused the events in the past - without having to pin any resource of that task.
> { > timer->start_site = NULL; > + pit_pid(timer->start_pid); > + timer->start_pid = NULL;
s/pit/put, right?
Ingo
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