linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/8] vfork: introduce complete_vfork

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:32:21 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...k.frob.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/8] vfork: introduce complete_vfork_done()

No functional changes.

Move the clear-and-complete-vfork_done code into the new trivial
helper, complete_vfork_done().

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

 include/linux/sched.h |    1 +
 fs/exec.c             |    8 ++------
 kernel/fork.c         |   17 ++++++++++-------
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

--- 3.1/include/linux/sched.h~1_complete_vfork_done	2011-07-26 15:50:14.000000000 +0200
+++ 3.1/include/linux/sched.h	2011-07-26 17:11:40.000000000 +0200
@@ -2253,6 +2253,7 @@ extern int do_execve(const char *,
 		     const char __user * const __user *,
 		     const char __user * const __user *, struct pt_regs *);
 extern long do_fork(unsigned long, unsigned long, struct pt_regs *, unsigned long, int __user *, int __user *);
+extern void complete_vfork_done(struct task_struct *tsk);
 struct task_struct *fork_idle(int);
 
 extern void set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, char *from);
--- 3.1/fs/exec.c~1_complete_vfork_done	2011-07-23 15:26:19.000000000 +0200
+++ 3.1/fs/exec.c	2011-07-26 17:15:10.000000000 +0200
@@ -1885,7 +1885,6 @@ static int coredump_wait(int exit_code, 
 {
 	struct task_struct *tsk = current;
 	struct mm_struct *mm = tsk->mm;
-	struct completion *vfork_done;
 	int core_waiters = -EBUSY;
 
 	init_completion(&core_state->startup);
@@ -1904,11 +1903,8 @@ static int coredump_wait(int exit_code, 
 	 * Make sure nobody is waiting for us to release the VM,
 	 * otherwise we can deadlock when we wait on each other
 	 */
-	vfork_done = tsk->vfork_done;
-	if (vfork_done) {
-		tsk->vfork_done = NULL;
-		complete(vfork_done);
-	}
+	if (tsk->vfork_done)
+		complete_vfork_done(tsk);
 
 	if (core_waiters)
 		wait_for_completion(&core_state->startup);
--- 3.1/kernel/fork.c~1_complete_vfork_done	2011-07-26 15:50:15.000000000 +0200
+++ 3.1/kernel/fork.c	2011-07-26 17:32:22.000000000 +0200
@@ -662,8 +662,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_task_mm);
  */
 void mm_release(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
-	struct completion *vfork_done = tsk->vfork_done;
-
 	/* Get rid of any futexes when releasing the mm */
 #ifdef CONFIG_FUTEX
 	if (unlikely(tsk->robust_list)) {
@@ -683,11 +681,8 @@ void mm_release(struct task_struct *tsk,
 	/* Get rid of any cached register state */
 	deactivate_mm(tsk, mm);
 
-	/* notify parent sleeping on vfork() */
-	if (vfork_done) {
-		tsk->vfork_done = NULL;
-		complete(vfork_done);
-	}
+	if (tsk->vfork_done)
+		complete_vfork_done(tsk);
 
 	/*
 	 * If we're exiting normally, clear a user-space tid field if
@@ -1446,6 +1441,14 @@ struct task_struct * __cpuinit fork_idle
 	return task;
 }
 
+void complete_vfork_done(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+	struct completion *vfork_done = tsk->vfork_done;
+
+	tsk->vfork_done = NULL;
+	complete(vfork_done);
+}
+
 /*
  *  Ok, this is the main fork-routine.
  *

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