On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:06:04PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Mark Fasheh <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > 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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