Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 May 2011 15:12:37 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] printk: Add %ptc to safely print a task's comm |
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On Tue, 10 May 2011, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Although I'm not sure if there's precedent for a %p value that didn't > > take a argument. Thoughts on that? Anyone else have an opinion here? > > The uses of %ptc must add an argument or else gcc will complain. > I suggest you just ignore the argument value and use current. >
That doesn't make any sense, why would you needlessly restrict this to current when accesses to other threads' ->comm needs to be protected in the same way? I'd like to use this in the oom killer and try to get rid of taking task_lock() for every thread group leader in the tasklist dump.
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