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Re: [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 18/26] 18: uprobes: commonly used filters.
- From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead dot org>
- To: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte dot hu>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis dot org>, Linux-mm <linux-mm at kvack dot org>, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at infradead dot org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation dot org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet at lwn dot net>, Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead dot org>, Masami Hiramatsu <masami dot hiramatsu dot pt at hitachi dot com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix dot de>, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth at in dot ibm dot com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat dot com>, Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation dot org>, SystemTap <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>, Jim Keniston <jkenisto at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor dot org>, LKML <linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:37:15 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 18/26] 18: uprobes: commonly used filters.
- References: <20110401143223.15455.19844.sendpatchset@localhost6.localdomain6> <20110401143602.15455.82211.sendpatchset@localhost6.localdomain6> <1303221477.8345.6.camel@twins> <20110421110911.GE10698@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 16:39 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> > What you want is to save the pid-namespace of the task creating the
> > filter in your uprobe_simple_consumer and use that to obtain the task's
> > pid for matching with the provided number.
> >
>
> Okay, will do by adding the pid-namespace of the task creating the
> filter in the uprobe_simple_consumer.
Maybe you could convert to the global pid namespace on construction and
always use that for comparison.
That would avoid the namespace muck on comparison..