linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/11] procfs: Don't cache a pid in the root inode.

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Message-ID: <50AC295D.9040101@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:07:41 +0800
From:	Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge@...lyn.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] procfs: Don't cache a pid in the root inode.

On 2012/11/17 00:35, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> 
> Now that we have s_fs_info pointing to our pid namespace
> the original reason for the proc root inode having a struct
> pid is gone.
> 
> Caching a pid in the root inode has led to some complicated
> code.  Now that we don't need the struct pid, just remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>
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