linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] : Is /proc/kcore still usefull and/or maintained ?

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Date:	Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:04:50 +0200
From:	Maxim <maximlevitsky@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] : Is /proc/kcore still usefull and/or maintained ?

On Thursday 22 March 2007 01:53:10 Eric Dumazet wrote:
> I stand corrected : This is a new bug
> 
> The /proc/kcore problem appears with linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1
> 
> fd = open("/proc/kcore", 0);
> llseek(fd, ...) returns an -EINVAL error
> 
> 
> Quick code inspection (before going to sleep...) shows that
> 
> proc_reg_llseek() (file fs/proc/inode.c)
> 
> is doing something like :
> 
> rv = -EINVAL;
> llseek = pde->proc_fops->llseek;
> spin_unlock(&pde->pde_unload_lock);
> if (llseek)
> 	rv = llseek(file, offset, whence);
> 
> As kcore dont have a .llseek handler, proc_reg_llseek() returns -EINVAL;
> 
> Previous kernel was probably calling a default llseek() handler.
> 
> if (!llseek)
> 	llseek = default_llseek;
> 
> Hum ???
> 

Hi,
	Yes, you are right, you have different problem that I had

	But why do you need llseek ?

	Why not to mmap it ?
	It is natural thing to do with files that represent memory.

	Regards,
		Maxim Levitsky
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