[PATCH] Mark timer_stats as incompatible with multiple pid
namespaces
Ingo Molnar
mingo at elte.hu
Thu Dec 13 01:01:02 PST 2007
* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com> wrote:
> /proc/timer_stats currently reports the user of a timer by pid, which
> is a reasonable approach. However if you are not in the initial pid
> namespace the pid that is reported is nonsense.
>
> Therefore until we can make timer_stats pid namespace safe just
> disable it in the build if pid namespace support is selected so we at
> least know we have a conflict.
What the heck??? Please solve this properly instead of hiding it.
/proc/timer_stats is damn useful and it's a must-have for powertop to
work.
Ingo
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