Re: [PATCH 1/1] [vfs/proc] task_nommu: fix compile failing bug because of spilt file.h

From: Bryan Wu
Date: Sun May 04 2008 - 13:25:47 EST


On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 11:12:55PM +0800, Bryan Wu wrote:
> > diff --git a/fs/proc/task_nommu.c b/fs/proc/task_nommu.c
> > index 6cba820..987bc69 100644
> > --- a/fs/proc/task_nommu.c
> > +++ b/fs/proc/task_nommu.c
> > @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
> >
> > #include <linux/mm.h>
> > #include <linux/file.h>
> > +#include <linux/fdtable.h>
> > #include <linux/mount.h>
> > #include <linux/ptrace.h>
> > #include <linux/seq_file.h>
>
> Well... I see what it's trying to do, but it's a bullshit. Look: it's from
> if (current->files && atomic_read(&current->files->count) > 1)
> sbytes += kobjsize(current->files);
> else
> bytes += kobjsize(current->files);
> Now, what we really have is size of current->files (fixed and not too large)
> + if descriptor table is too large to be embedded,
> size of current->files->fdt
> size of current->files->fdt->fd
> size of current->files->fdt->open_fds/->close_on_exec
> And the second term there can be *large*, so if we are really serious about
> taking descriptor table footprint into account, we'd better take care of
> that too. I'm not sure that we want to, though - note that we do that only
> on nommu targets...
>
> So what's that code really trying to achieve?
>

Wow, my patch is just to kill the compile error, I did not notice this
large size issue here.
I'd like to improve this code later.

Thanks
-Bryan
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