linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Mark thread stack correctly in proc/<pid>/maps

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Message-Id: <201202231847.55733.vapier@gentoo.org>
Date:	Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:47:52 -0500
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
To:	Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh.poyarekar@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mark thread stack correctly in proc/<pid>/maps

On Wednesday 22 February 2012 23:03:31 Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> With this patch in place, /proc/PID/task/TID/maps are treated as 'maps
> as the task would see it' and hence, only the vma that that task uses
> as stack is marked as [stack]. All other 'stack' vmas are marked as
> anonymous memory. /proc/PID/maps acts as a thread group level view,
> where all stack vmas are marked.

i don't suppose we could have it say "[tid stack]" rather than "[stack]" ?  or 
perhaps even "[stack tid:%u]" with replacing %u with the tid ?
-mike

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