linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/11] track files for checkpointability

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Date:	Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:22:45 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Nathan Lynch <ntl@...ox.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/11] track files for checkpointability

On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 10:57 -0500, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> From a0fb96aa41c4d360559013cfd7f32f07f449c1c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Nathan Lynch <ntl@...ox.com>
> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 22:23:02 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] checkpoint: make files_deny_checkpointing print task
> name and pid
> 
> This lets the developer know *which* task performed an action that
> prevents checkpoint.

Can you think of any case where we wouldn't be calling
foo_deny_checkpoint() for a task other than current?  Should we just use
current in the function directly instead of passing it in?

-- Dave

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