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 --- kernel/pid.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/pid.c') diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c index 93e212f2067..6db82b68e2f 100644 --- a/kernel/pid.c +++ b/kernel/pid.c @@ -252,6 +252,15 @@ void fastcall detach_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type type) free_pid(pid); } +/* transfer_pid is an optimization of attach_pid(new), detach_pid(old) */ +void fastcall transfer_pid(struct task_struct *old, struct task_struct *new, + enum pid_type type) +{ + new->pids[type].pid = old->pids[type].pid; + hlist_replace_rcu(&old->pids[type].node, &new->pids[type].node); + old->pids[type].pid = NULL; +} + struct task_struct * fastcall pid_task(struct pid *pid, enum pid_type type) { struct task_struct *result = NULL; -- cgit v1.2.3