Re: [PATCH] Mark timer_stats as incompatible with multiple pid namespaces

* Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]> wrote:

> > the problem is, this interface stores historic PIDs too - i.e. PIDs 
> > of tasks that might have exited already.
> 
> Well struct pid * works in that case if you grab the reference to it.

but the display of the stats might happen much later. The point of this 
API is to save pid+comm, which gives users a good idea about what caused 
the events in the past - without having to pin any resource of that 
task.

>  {
>  	timer->start_site = NULL;
> +	pit_pid(timer->start_pid);
> +	timer->start_pid = NULL;

s/pit/put, right?

	Ingo
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