linux-kernel - Re: [merged] proctxt-update-kernel-filesystem-proctxt-documentation.patch removed from -mm tree

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Message-Id: <1245825903.23818.4.camel@wall-e>
Date:	Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:45:03 +0200
From:	Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [merged]
 proctxt-update-kernel-filesystem-proctxt-documentation.patch removed from
 -mm tree

Am Dienstag, den 23.06.2009, 23:32 -0700 schrieb Andrew Morton:
> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:20:44 +0200 Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net> wrote:
> 
> > what is with the associated
> > procfs-provide-stack-information-for-threads-v08.patch
> > patch?
> > 
> > There was no real objections against this patch, so why not merge it for
> > 2.6.31?
> 
> Alexey pointed out that it doesn't actually work.

That is not true... it works. With my patch the kernel does exactly know
where the thread stack is and therefor it is easy to determinate the
associated map.


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