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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2006-03-28 16:11:03 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-28 18:36:40 -0800
commitd73d65293e3e2de7e916a89c8da30be0948afab7 (patch)
tree62b0ca76e3099c927f2960856dd060b136a8ccef /include/linux
parent652486fb84a07ed750f1c11639518f55808bf555 (diff)
[PATCH] pidhash: kill switch_exec_pids
switch_exec_pids is only called from de_thread by way of exec, and it is only called when we are exec'ing from a non thread group leader. Currently switch_exec_pids gives the leader the pid of the thread and unhashes and rehashes all of the process groups. The leader is already in the EXIT_DEAD state so no one cares about it's pids. The only concern for the leader is that __unhash_process called from release_task will function correctly. If we don't touch the leader at all we know that __unhash_process will work fine so there is no need to touch the leader. For the task becomming the thread group leader, we just need to give it the pid of the old thread group leader, add it to the task list, and attach it to the session and the process group of the thread group. Currently de_thread is also adding the task to the task list which is just silly. Currently the only leader of __detach_pid besides detach_pid is switch_exec_pids because of the ugly extra work that was being performed. So this patch removes switch_exec_pids because it is doing too much, it is creating an unnecessary special case in pid.c, duing work duplicated in de_thread, and generally obscuring what it is going on. The necessary work is added to de_thread, and it seems to be a little clearer there what is going on. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/pid.h1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/pid.h b/include/linux/pid.h
index 5b2fcb19d2d..099e70ecf7c 100644
--- a/include/linux/pid.h
+++ b/include/linux/pid.h
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ extern struct pid *FASTCALL(find_pid(enum pid_type, int));
extern int alloc_pidmap(void);
extern void FASTCALL(free_pidmap(int));
-extern void switch_exec_pids(struct task_struct *leader, struct task_struct *thread);
#define do_each_task_pid(who, type, task) \
if ((task = find_task_by_pid_type(type, who))) { \