Re: [RFC] [PATCH 00/13] Introduce task_pid api

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

> > Have you crosstool'd built this for most arch's?  I could imagine
> > some piece of code having a local or other struct variable named 'pid'
> > that would be broken by a mistake in this change.  This could be so
> > whether the change was done by a script, or by hand.  Probably need
> > to test 'allyesconfig' too.
> 
> Argh - in fact it appears I compiled and booted my 2.6.14 version,
> not this 2.6.15-rc1 version.  Another patch is needed for this to
> compile and boot (on a power5 system, in addition to a patch pending
> for -mm to make rpaphp_pci compile).  Sorry.

> @@ -2925,7 +2925,7 @@ void submit_bio(int rw, struct bio *bio)
>  	if (unlikely(block_dump)) {
>  		char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
>  		printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s(%d): %s block %Lu on %s\n",
> -			current->comm, current->pid,
> +			current->comm, task_pid(current),
>  			(rw & WRITE) ? "WRITE" : "READ",
>  			(unsigned long long)bio->bi_sector,
>  			bdevname(bio->bi_bdev,b));

...and now printk is close to useless, because uer can't know to which
pidspace that pid belongs. Oops.
-- 
64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms         

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