Re: [PATCH] Fix procfs task exe symlink

[David Howells]

Matt Helsley <matthltc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> To solve the problem this patch changes the way that the kernel resolves a
> task's exe symlink. Instead of walking the VMAs to find the first
> executable file-backed VMA we store a reference to the exec'd file in the
> mm_struct -- /foo/bar/jvm/bin/java in the example above.

Sounds interesting.

> 	nommu-only code paths are untested -- lacking access to nommu system

I could test it, but it'll have to wait until I get back from LCA in a couple
of weeks time.

David
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