linux-kernel - [RFC, PATCH] introduce pid_for_each_task() to replace do_each_pid

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Date:	Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:49:38 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>, kenchen@...gle.com,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC, PATCH] introduce pid_for_each_task() to replace
	do_each_pid_task()

pid_for_each_task() does the same as
do_each_pid_task() + while_each_pid_task(), so instead of

	do_each_pid_task(pid, type, task) {
		do_something(task);
	} while_each_pid_task(pid, type, task);

we can just do

	pid_for_each_task(pid, type, task)
		do_something(task);

This looks better, and we can use break/continue safely.

This patch changes do_each_pid_task() to use pid_for_each_task(), once
we convert all users of do_each_pid_task() we can kill this helper.

However. The implementation of pid_for_each_task() itself is anything
but clean/simple, so this patch asks for the explicit acks/nacks.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>

--- 6.29-rc3/include/linux/pid.h~FOR_EACH_PID	2009-01-12 23:07:48.000000000 +0100
+++ 6.29-rc3/include/linux/pid.h	2009-02-24 22:07:48.000000000 +0100
@@ -162,21 +162,25 @@ static inline pid_t pid_nr(struct pid *p
 pid_t pid_nr_ns(struct pid *pid, struct pid_namespace *ns);
 pid_t pid_vnr(struct pid *pid);
 
+/*
+ * Both old and new leaders may be attached to the same pid in the
+ * middle of de_thread(), that is why we do the special check for
+ * PIDTYPE_PID below.
+ */
+#define pid_for_each_task(pid, type, p)	\
+	for (p = (pid) ? (void*)(pid)->tasks[type].first : NULL;	\
+	     rcu_dereference(p) && ({					\
+		prefetch(((struct hlist_node*)p)->next);		\
+		p = hlist_entry((void*)p, typeof(*p), pids[type].node);	\
+		1; });							\
+	     p = ((type) != PIDTYPE_PID) ?				\
+		(void*)(p)->pids[type].node.next : NULL)
+
 #define do_each_pid_task(pid, type, task)				\
 	do {								\
-		struct hlist_node *pos___;				\
-		if ((pid) != NULL)					\
-			hlist_for_each_entry_rcu((task), pos___,	\
-				&(pid)->tasks[type], pids[type].node) {
+		pid_for_each_task(pid, type, task)
 
-			/*
-			 * Both old and new leaders may be attached to
-			 * the same pid in the middle of de_thread().
-			 */
 #define while_each_pid_task(pid, type, task)				\
-				if (type == PIDTYPE_PID)		\
-					break;				\
-			}						\
 	} while (0)
 
 #define do_each_pid_thread(pid, type, task)				\

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