[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/6] Initialize struct pid_nr for swapper

[Eric W. Biederman]

Herbert Poetzl <herbert at 13thfloor.at> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 07:59:24PM -0800, sukadev at us.ibm.com wrote:
>> 
>> From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev at us.ibm.com>
>> Subject: [RFC][PATCH 4/6] Initialize struct pid_nr for swapper.
>> 
>> Statically initialize a struct pid_nr for the swapper process.
>
> does that actually satisfy procfs needs too, or
> just the abstract internal references?
>
> because if it is enough to make procfs happy, this
> would be a viable solution for the lightweight guest
> case (as fake init process) too, which doesn't require
> a blend through functionality anymore, and would allow
> to make the pid isolation complete without wasting
> any resources ...

Herbert I'm not quite certain what you are asking but
largely I think the answer is yes.  Making procfs work
on top of something like this patchset is pretty straight forward.

Eric
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