linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] reduce reparent_to

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Message-ID: <m11wiryifb.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:27:04 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Robin Holt <holt@....com>, Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] reduce reparent_to_init()

Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru> writes:

> Move some random stuff which doesn't need tasklist_lock from reparent_to_init()
> to its caller, daemonize(). Strictly speaking, rlim is protected by task_lock()
> but we don't need it to copy init_task->rlim.

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

Regardless of whatever else we are doing getting junk out of a function
whose goal is to reparent a kernel thread makes sense.

Eric
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