linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 1/4 -mmotm] copy_signal() cleanup: use zalloc and remove initializations

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Date:	Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:19:13 +0100
From:	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Miloslav Trmac <mitr@...hat.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Renaud Lottiaux <renaud.lottiaux@...labs.com>,
	Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@...labs.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/4 -mmotm] copy_signal() cleanup: use zalloc and remove
	initializations

Use kmem_cache_zalloc() on signal creation and remove unneeded initialization
lines in copy_signal().

Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
---
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 404e6ca..a9252bf 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -859,7 +848,7 @@ static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
 	if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD)
 		return 0;
 
-	sig = kmem_cache_alloc(signal_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+	sig = kmem_cache_zalloc(signal_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
 	tsk->signal = sig;
 	if (!sig)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -867,46 +856,21 @@ static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
 	atomic_set(&sig->count, 1);
 	atomic_set(&sig->live, 1);
 	init_waitqueue_head(&sig->wait_chldexit);
-	sig->flags = 0;
 	if (clone_flags & CLONE_NEWPID)
 		sig->flags |= SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE;
-	sig->group_exit_code = 0;
-	sig->group_exit_task = NULL;
-	sig->group_stop_count = 0;
 	sig->curr_target = tsk;
 	init_sigpending(&sig->shared_pending);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sig->posix_timers);
 
 	hrtimer_init(&sig->real_timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
-	sig->it_real_incr.tv64 = 0;
 	sig->real_timer.function = it_real_fn;
 
-	sig->leader = 0;	/* session leadership doesn't inherit */
-	sig->tty_old_pgrp = NULL;
-	sig->tty = NULL;
-
-	sig->utime = sig->stime = sig->cutime = sig->cstime = cputime_zero;
-	sig->gtime = cputime_zero;
-	sig->cgtime = cputime_zero;
-#ifndef CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
-	sig->prev_utime = sig->prev_stime = cputime_zero;
-#endif
-	sig->nvcsw = sig->nivcsw = sig->cnvcsw = sig->cnivcsw = 0;
-	sig->min_flt = sig->maj_flt = sig->cmin_flt = sig->cmaj_flt = 0;
-	sig->inblock = sig->oublock = sig->cinblock = sig->coublock = 0;
-	sig->maxrss = sig->cmaxrss = 0;
-	task_io_accounting_init(&sig->ioac);
-	sig->sum_sched_runtime = 0;
-	taskstats_tgid_init(sig);
-
 	task_lock(current->group_leader);
 	memcpy(sig->rlim, current->signal->rlim, sizeof sig->rlim);
 	task_unlock(current->group_leader);
 
 	posix_cpu_timers_init_group(sig);
 
-	acct_init_pacct(&sig->pacct);
-
 	tty_audit_fork(sig);
 
 	sig->oom_adj = current->signal->oom_adj;
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