linux-kernel - [PATCH] nsproxy: extract create

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Date:	Mon, 4 May 2009 03:29:22 +0400
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: [PATCH] nsproxy: extract create_nsproxy()

clone_nsproxy() does useless copying of old nsproxy -- every pointer will be
rewritten to new ns or to old ns. Remove copying, rename clone_nsproxy(),
create_nsproxy() will be used by C/R code to create fresh nsproxy on restart.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>
---
 kernel/nsproxy.c |   19 +++++++------------
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/nsproxy.c b/kernel/nsproxy.c
index 63598dc..09b4ff9 100644
--- a/kernel/nsproxy.c
+++ b/kernel/nsproxy.c
@@ -26,19 +26,14 @@ static struct kmem_cache *nsproxy_cachep;
 
 struct nsproxy init_nsproxy = INIT_NSPROXY(init_nsproxy);
 
-/*
- * creates a copy of "orig" with refcount 1.
- */
-static inline struct nsproxy *clone_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *orig)
+static inline struct nsproxy *create_nsproxy(void)
 {
-	struct nsproxy *ns;
+	struct nsproxy *nsproxy;
 
-	ns = kmem_cache_alloc(nsproxy_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (ns) {
-		memcpy(ns, orig, sizeof(struct nsproxy));
-		atomic_set(&ns->count, 1);
-	}
-	return ns;
+	nsproxy = kmem_cache_alloc(nsproxy_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (nsproxy)
+		atomic_set(&nsproxy->count, 1);
+	return nsproxy;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -52,7 +47,7 @@ static struct nsproxy *create_new_namespaces(unsigned long flags,
 	struct nsproxy *new_nsp;
 	int err;
 
-	new_nsp = clone_nsproxy(tsk->nsproxy);
+	new_nsp = create_nsproxy();
 	if (!new_nsp)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
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