linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] proc: show locks in /proc/pid/fdinfo/X

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Date:	Fri, 6 Mar 2015 11:38:05 +0300
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: show locks in /proc/pid/fdinfo/X

On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 06:37:18PM +0300, Andrey Vagin wrote:
> Let's show locks which are associated with a file descriptor in
> its fdinfo file.
> 
> Currently we don't have a reliable way to determine who holds a lock.
> We can find some information in /proc/locks, but PID which is reported
> there can be wrong. For example, a process takes a lock, then forks a
> child and dies. In this case /proc/locks contains the parent pid, which
> can be reused by another process.
> 
> $ cat /proc/locks
> ...
> 6: FLOCK  ADVISORY  WRITE 324 00:13:13431 0 EOF
> ...
> 
> $ ps -C rpcbind
>   PID TTY          TIME CMD
>   332 ?        00:00:00 rpcbind
> 
...

Looks reasonable to me, thanks!
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
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