linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] coredump: kill mm->core

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Message-ID: <20080720085139.GB143@tv-sign.ru>
Date:	Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:51:39 +0400
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coredump: kill mm->core_done

On 07/19, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> It is indeed ugly.  I think the place to start is with moving all the
> coredump code out of exit_mm() into a new subfunction that is just passed
> the mm pointer, and doing the same with coredump_finish() as you've done,
> but leaving the completion logic inside those functions the same.

The next patch does this.

This patch goes first because it kills the last field in mm_struct which
is needed for the coredump code, so new new function (exit_coredump) doesn't
need the mm pointer at all.

Oleg.

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