linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] export kernel call get_task

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Date:	Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:10:22 -0700
From:	J Freyensee <james_p_freyensee@...ux.intel.com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	suhail.ahmed@...el.com, christophe.guerard@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] export kernel call get_task_comm().

On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 16:22 -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, james_p_freyensee@...ux.intel.com wrote:
> 
> > From: J Freyensee <james_p_freyensee@...ux.intel.com>
> > 
> > This allows drivers who call this function to be compiled modularly.
> > Otherwise, a driver who is interested in this type of functionality
> > has to implement their own get_task_comm() call, causing code
> > duplication in the Linux source tree.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: J Freyensee <james_p_freyensee@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> 
> There've been some other patchsets proposed recently that need to print a 
> thread's comm and since /proc/pid/comm can change the comm's of other 
> threads out from under them, it's necessary to serialize access to it with 
> task_lock().  This patch certainly makes it easier for modules to do so 
> correctly, thanks!

Thanks for the compliment; it's appreciated.  I've made my patch sets
independent from one another.  And I believe a common consensus (at
least with Greg KH, Alan C., Arjan VdV and myself) was achieved that
this is a good patch to apply? So maybe this can be applied to the
kernel, independent of my other patches, so this will fit your needs?


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