linux-kernel - Re: [v12][PATCH 5/9] Add target_pids parameter to copy_process()

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Date:	Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:40:04 -0800
From:	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	mtk.manpages@...glemail.com, arnd@...db.de,
	Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Nathan Lynch <nathanl@...tin.ibm.com>,
	matthltc@...a.localdomain,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, hpa@...or.com,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	roland@...hat.com, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v12][PATCH 5/9] Add target_pids parameter to copy_process()

CC: LKML

Sukadev Bhattiprolu [sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com] wrote:
| 
| Subject: [v12][PATCH 5/9] Add target_pids parameter to copy_process()
| 
| Add a 'target_pids' parameter to copy_process().  The new parameter will be
| used in a follow-on patch when eclone() is implemented.
| 
| Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
| Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>
| Reviewed-by: Oren Laadan <orenl@...columbia.edu>
| ---
|  kernel/fork.c |    7 ++++---
|  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
| 
| diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
| index 3f1dddf..c8a06de 100644
| --- a/kernel/fork.c
| +++ b/kernel/fork.c
| @@ -975,12 +975,12 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
|  					unsigned long stack_size,
|  					int __user *child_tidptr,
|  					struct pid *pid,
| +					pid_t *target_pids,
|  					int trace)
|  {
|  	int retval;
|  	struct task_struct *p;
|  	int cgroup_callbacks_done = 0;
| -	pid_t *target_pids = NULL;
| 
|  	if ((clone_flags & (CLONE_NEWNS|CLONE_FS)) == (CLONE_NEWNS|CLONE_FS))
|  		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
| @@ -1361,7 +1361,7 @@ struct task_struct * __cpuinit fork_idle(int cpu)
|  	struct pt_regs regs;
| 
|  	task = copy_process(CLONE_VM, 0, idle_regs(&regs), 0, NULL,
| -			    &init_struct_pid, 0);
| +			    &init_struct_pid, NULL, 0);
|  	if (!IS_ERR(task))
|  		init_idle(task, cpu);
| 
| @@ -1384,6 +1384,7 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
|  	struct task_struct *p;
|  	int trace = 0;
|  	long nr;
| +	pid_t *target_pids = NULL;
| 
|  	/*
|  	 * Do some preliminary argument and permissions checking before we
| @@ -1424,7 +1425,7 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
|  		trace = tracehook_prepare_clone(clone_flags);
| 
|  	p = copy_process(clone_flags, stack_start, regs, stack_size,
| -			 child_tidptr, NULL, trace);
| +			 child_tidptr, NULL, target_pids, trace);
|  	/*
|  	 * Do this prior waking up the new thread - the thread pointer
|  	 * might get invalid after that point, if the thread exits quickly.
| -- 
| 1.6.0.4
| 
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