linux-kernel - [PATCH 06/23] tracehook: vfork-done

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Date:	Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:29:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 06/23] tracehook: vfork-done

This moves the PTRACE_EVENT_VFORK_DONE tracing into a tracehook.h inline,
tracehook_report_vfork_done().  The change has no effect, just clean-up.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
---
 include/linux/tracehook.h |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/fork.c             |    5 +----
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/tracehook.h b/include/linux/tracehook.h
index 3ebc58b..830e6e1 100644
--- a/include/linux/tracehook.h
+++ b/include/linux/tracehook.h
@@ -210,4 +210,22 @@ static inline void tracehook_report_clone_complete(int trace,
 		ptrace_event(0, trace, pid);
 }
 
+/**
+ * tracehook_report_vfork_done - vfork parent's child has exited or exec'd
+ * @child:		child task, already running
+ * @pid:		new child's PID in the parent's namespace
+ *
+ * Called after a %CLONE_VFORK parent has waited for the child to complete.
+ * The clone/vfork system call will return immediately after this.
+ * The @child pointer may be invalid if a self-reaping child died and
+ * tracehook_report_clone() took no action to prevent it from self-reaping.
+ *
+ * Called with no locks held.
+ */
+static inline void tracehook_report_vfork_done(struct task_struct *child,
+					       pid_t pid)
+{
+	ptrace_event(PT_TRACE_VFORK_DONE, PTRACE_EVENT_VFORK_DONE, pid);
+}
+
 #endif	/* <linux/tracehook.h> */
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 56b6ab0..5345b7d 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1376,10 +1376,7 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
 			freezer_do_not_count();
 			wait_for_completion(&vfork);
 			freezer_count();
-			if (unlikely (current->ptrace & PT_TRACE_VFORK_DONE)) {
-				current->ptrace_message = nr;
-				ptrace_notify ((PTRACE_EVENT_VFORK_DONE << 8) | SIGTRAP);
-			}
+			tracehook_report_vfork_done(p, nr);
 		}
 	} else {
 		nr = PTR_ERR(p);
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