From c18258c6f0848f97e85287f6271c511a092bb784 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:51:06 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] pid: Implement transfer_pid and use it to simplify de_thread In de_thread we move pids from one process to another, a rather ugly case. The function transfer_pid makes it clear what we are doing, and makes the action atomic. This is useful we ever want to atomically traverse the process group and session lists, in a rcu safe manner. Even if the atomic properties this change should be a win as transfer_pid should be less code to execute than executing both attach_pid and detach_pid, and this should make de_thread slightly smaller as only a single function call needs to be emitted. The only downside is that the code might be slower to execute as the odds are against transfer_pid being in cache. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/exec.c | 11 ++++------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/exec.c') diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 54135df2a96..b7aa3d6422d 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -696,23 +696,20 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct *tsk) */ /* Become a process group leader with the old leader's pid. - * Note: The old leader also uses thispid until release_task + * The old leader becomes a thread of the this thread group. + * Note: The old leader also uses this pid until release_task * is called. Odd but simple and correct. */ detach_pid(current, PIDTYPE_PID); current->pid = leader->pid; attach_pid(current, PIDTYPE_PID, current->pid); - attach_pid(current, PIDTYPE_PGID, current->signal->pgrp); - attach_pid(current, PIDTYPE_SID, current->signal->session); + transfer_pid(leader, current, PIDTYPE_PGID); + transfer_pid(leader, current, PIDTYPE_SID); list_replace_rcu(&leader->tasks, ¤t->tasks); current->group_leader = current; leader->group_leader = current; - /* Reduce leader to a thread */ - detach_pid(leader, PIDTYPE_PGID); - detach_pid(leader, PIDTYPE_SID); - current->exit_signal = SIGCHLD; BUG_ON(leader->exit_state != EXIT_ZOMBIE); -- cgit v1.2.3