The patch titled proc: give the root directory a task has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename is proc-give-the-root-directory-a-task.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: proc: give the root directory a task From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Helper functions in base.c like proc_pident_readdir and proc_pident_lookup assume the directories have an associated task, and cannot currently be used on the /proc root directory because it does not have such a task. This small changes allows for base.c to be simplified and later when multiple pid spaces are introduced it makes getting the needed context information trivial. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/root.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/proc/root.c~proc-give-the-root-directory-a-task fs/proc/root.c --- a/fs/proc/root.c~proc-give-the-root-directory-a-task +++ a/fs/proc/root.c @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/bitops.h> #include <linux/smp_lock.h> +#include <linux/mount.h> #include "internal.h" @@ -28,6 +29,17 @@ struct proc_dir_entry *proc_sys_root; static int proc_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type, int flags, const char *dev_name, void *data, struct vfsmount *mnt) { + if (proc_mnt) { + /* Seed the root directory with a pid so it doesn't need + * to be special in base.c. I would do this earlier but + * the only task alive when /proc is mounted the first time + * is the init_task and it doesn't have any pids. + */ + struct proc_inode *ei; + ei = PROC_I(proc_mnt->mnt_sb->s_root->d_inode); + if (!ei->pid) + ei->pid = find_get_pid(1); + } return get_sb_single(fs_type, flags, data, proc_fill_super, mnt); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch namespaces-utsname-introduce-temporary-helpers.patch git-scsi-misc.patch revert-insert-ioapics-and-local-apic-into-resource-map.patch insert-local-and-io-apics-into-resource-map.patch genirq-irq-convert-the-move_irq-flag-from-a-32bit-word-to-a-single-bit.patch genirq-irq-add-moved_masked_irq.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-reenable-migrating-irqs-to-other-cpus.patch genirq-msi-simplify-msi-enable-and-disable.patch genirq-msi-make-the-msi-boolean-tests-return-either-0-or-1.patch genirq-msi-implement-helper-functions-read_msi_msg-and-write_msi_msg.patch genirq-msi-refactor-the-msi_ops.patch genirq-msi-simplify-the-msi-irq-limit-policy.patch genirq-irq-add-a-dynamic-irq-creation-api.patch genirq-ia64-irq-dynamic-irq-support.patch genirq-i386-irq-dynamic-irq-support.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-dynamic-irq-support.patch genirq-msi-make-the-msi-code-irq-based-and-not-vector-based.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-move-msi-message-composition-into-io_apicc.patch genirq-i386-irq-move-msi-message-composition-into-io_apicc.patch genirq-msi-only-build-msi-apicc-on-ia64.patch genirq-msi-only-build-msi-apicc-on-ia64-fix.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-remove-the-msi-assumption-that-irq-==-vector.patch genirq-i386-irq-remove-the-msi-assumption-that-irq-==-vector.patch genirq-irq-remove-msi-hacks.patch genirq-irq-generalize-the-check-for-hardirq_bits.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-make-the-external-irq-handlers-report-their-vector-not-the-irq-number.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-make-vector_irq-per-cpu.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-make-vector_irq-per-cpu-fix.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-make-vector_irq-per-cpu-warning-fix.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-kill-gsi_irq_sharing.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-kill-irq-compression.patch add-hypertransport-capability-defines.patch add-hypertransport-capability-defines-fix.patch initial-generic-hypertransport-interrupt-support.patch initial-generic-hypertransport-interrupt-support-Kconfig-fix.patch msi-simplify-msi-sanity-checks-by-adding-with-generic-irq-code.patch msi-only-use-a-single-irq_chip-for-msi-interrupts.patch msi-refactor-and-move-the-msi-irq_chip-into-the-arch-code.patch msi-move-the-ia64-code-into-arch-ia64.patch htirq-tidy-up-the-htirq-code.patch genirq-clean-up-irq-flow-type-naming.patch pidhash-temporary-debug-checks.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html