Re: [PATCH] Binder: Add timestamp and async from pid/tid to transaction record

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Apr 13 2023 - 11:06:56 EST


On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 09:03:08PM +0800, Chuang Zhang wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 8:36 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 08:34:06PM +0800, Chuang Zhang wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 8:17 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > > And how are pid namespaces being handled here? I know it's just
> > > > debugging data but showing a pid from the wrong namespace probably
> > would
> > > > not be a good idea as it might get confusing quickly.
> > > >
> > > [chuang] Do you have any good suggestions? thanks
> >
> > I do not know what you are using this debug information for, nor how or
> > if Android uses pid namespaces (I think it does?)
> >
> [chuang]
> So can I use (struct binder_thread *async_from) instead ?
> and get the corresponding pid and tid through the following way:
> async_from->proc->pid
> async_from->pid

I don't know, try it and see!

I'm not quite sure what debugging information you can get here with the
pid, nor what you intend to do with it, so I can't answer this very
well, sorry.

thanks,

greg k-h