On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:06:04PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

Mark Fasheh [off-list ref] writes:

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This patch introduces a callback in the super_operations structure,
'get_maps_dev' which is then used by procfs to query which device to return
for reporting in /proc/[PID]/maps.

No.

It may make sense to call the vfs stat method.  But introducing an extra
vfs operations for this seems like a maintenance nightmare.

Yeah I'm not thrilled with the extra method either. My concern with using
->getattr is whether it's too heavy since that implies potential disk /
network i/o.
	--Mark

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Mark Fasheh