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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:23:23 -0800
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@...il.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 03/11] proc: move /proc/{self|thread-self} dentries to proc_fs_info

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 7:06 AM Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@...il.com> wrote:
>
> This is a preparation patch that moves /proc/{self|thread-self} dentries
> to be stored inside procfs fs_info struct instead of making them per pid
> namespace. Since we want to support multiple procfs instances we need to
> make sure that these dentries are also per-superblock instead of
> per-pidns,

The changelog makes perfect sense so far...

> unmounting a private procfs won't clash with other procfs
> mounts.

This doesn't parse as part of the previous sentence.  I'm also not
convinced that this really involves unmounting per se.  Maybe just
delete these words.

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