Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:51:12 +0530 Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> I'd have hoped to see containerstats.c in here.
>>>
>> The current statistics code is really small, so it fit into taskstats.c.
>> May be in the future, we could re-factor it and move it out.
>
> I was referring to your userspace tool which reads this stuff. The one
> which you described in the changelog.
>
Ahh.. yes.. I'll make the changes and repost with the tool.
>>>> + rcu_read_lock();
>>>> +
>>>> + for_each_root(root) {
>>>> + if (!root->subsys_bits)
>>>> + continue;
>>>> + root_cont = &root->top_container;
>>>> + get_first_subsys(root_cont, NULL, &subsys_id);
>>>> + do_each_thread(g, p) {
>>> this needs tasklist_lock?
>>>
>> rcu_read_lock() should be fine. From Eric's patch at
>>
>> 2.6.17-mm2 - proc-remove-tasklist_lock-from-proc_pid_readdir.patch
>>
>> The patch mentions that "We don't need the tasklist_lock to safely
>> iterate through processes anymore."
>>
>
> oh, OK. rcu_read_lock() is the new lock_kernel() - always hard to tell
> what it's locking.
>
:-) I'll add a comment to make it clearer.
--
Warm Regards,
Balbir Singh
Linux Technology Center
IBM, ISTL
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