On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 05:36:24PM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote: > Pid namespaces make it dangerous to use pid and tgid values > when run in some namespace. The struct pid itself is going > to be the only way for working with task pids, so make the > nfs callback thread use it. > > Since nfs_callback_info.pid is set to current's one and reset > on the thread exit, it is safe not to get the struct pid. > > Since this pid is used later under lock_kernel() w/o sleeping > operations, checking for i to be not NULL and killing the > thread with kill_pid() is safe.
NACK. This just makes the code even more obscure. Please get rid of the pid references entirely and convert the code to the kthread API. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
