Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:33:13 +0300 | From | Andrew Vagin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] [RFC] kernel: add a netlink interface to get information about processes |
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 09:53:09AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 17 February 2015 11:20:19 Andrey Vagin wrote: > > task_diag is based on netlink sockets and looks like socket-diag, which > > is used to get information about sockets. > > > > A request is described by the task_diag_pid structure: > > > > struct task_diag_pid { > > __u64 show_flags; /* specify which information are required */ > > __u64 dump_stratagy; /* specify a group of processes */ > > > > __u32 pid; > > }; > > Can you explain how the interface relates to the 'taskstats' genetlink > API? Did you consider extending that interface to provide the > information you need instead of basing on the socket-diag?
It isn't based on the socket-diag, it looks like socket-diag.
Current task_diag registers a new genl family, but we can use the taskstats family and add task_diag commands to it.
Thanks, Andrew
> > Arnd
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