Re: cmdline of deputied process disappears

"Matt Dew" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.cluster.openmosix.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Carl, 
 It's a feature. :)  When a process is migrated the deputy stub is
treated like a kernel daemon in that it no longer has its own memory
space, hence the [brackets] surrounding the process name.   If you look
at all the other kernel daemons, they also have nothing in
/proc/<pid>/cmdline.

Specifically, cmdline returns the mm->arg_start to mm->end string and
once a process has migrated its memory pages are all removed from the
deputy so there is no longer an p->mm struct to retreive cmdline info
from.  

If my understanding is wrong, someone please correct me. 
Matt

>>> "Carl Radford (DC0854-IT)" <[email protected]> 05/26/06
8:04 AM >>>
>When a process is migrated, /proc/$pid/cmdline gets cleared down.
>When the process is sent home it is restored.
>
>Is this a bug ?



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