linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v17][PATCH 14/60] pids 4/7: Add target_pids parameter to alloc

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Message-ID: <20090803182249.GA7493@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 3 Aug 2009 13:22:49 -0500
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
To:	Oren Laadan <orenl@...rato.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v17][PATCH 14/60] pids 4/7: Add target_pids parameter to
	alloc_pid()

Quoting Oren Laadan (orenl@...rato.com):
> From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> This parameter is currently NULL, but will be used in a follow-on patch.

Note that patches 1-4 of the clone_with_pid() patchset should
also be useful if we decide to re-create process trees in-kernel
and not export clone_with_pid().  (Though maybe not immediately
applicable to Alexey's current kthread_run()-based approach).

-serge
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