On Mon, 24 Jul 2023 at 09:59, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Maybe it doesn't matter. Obviously it can't have contention, and your
> patch in that sense is pretty benign.
>
> But locking is just fundamentally expensive in the first place, and it
> annoys me that I never realized that pidfd_getfd() did that thing that
> I knew was broken for /proc.
I've applied the patch, with a much pruned commit message, and just a
link to your original email instead.
Linus
