On Sat, 2019-10-12 at 12:21 +0200, Christian Brauner wrote: > I think this might be more what we want. Yep, indeed. > I tried to think of cases where the first entry of Pid is not > identical > to the first entry of NSpid but I came up with none. Maybe you do, > Jann? Yeah, I don't think that can be the case. By looking at the source of 'pid_nr_ns(pid, ns)' a non-zero return means that a) 'pid' valid, ie. non-null and b) 'ns' is in the pid namespace hierarchy of 'pid' (at pid->level, i.e. "pid->numbers[ns->level].ns == ns"). > Christian, this is just a quick stab I took. Feel free to pick this > up as a template. Thanks! I slightly re-worked it, with the reasoning above in mind, to get rid of one of the branches: +#ifdef CONFIG_PID_NS + seq_put_decimal_ull(m, "\nNSpid:\t", nr); + if (nr) { + int i; + + /* If nr is non-zero it means that 'pid' is valid and that + * ns, i.e. the pid namespace associated with the procfs + * instance, is in the pid namespace hierarchy of pid. + * Start at one level below and print all descending pids. + */ + for (i = ns->level + 1; i <= pid->level; i++) { + ns = pid->numbers[i].ns; + seq_put_decimal_ull(m, "\t", pid_nr_ns(pid, ns)); + } + } +#endif But I now just realized that with the very same reasoning, if nr is non-zero, we don't need to redo all the checks and can just do: for (i = ns->level + 1; i <= pid->level; i++) seq_put_decimal_ull(m, "\t", pid->numbers[i].nr); If this sounds good to you I resend the patches with the change above. Thanks, Christian