linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] copy_signal cleanup: clean acct_init_pacct() and taskstats_tgid

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Message-ID: <20091207073914.GE5780@balbir.in.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 7 Dec 2009 13:09:14 +0530
From:	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Miloslav Trmac <mitr@...hat.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Renaud Lottiaux <renaud.lottiaux@...labs.com>,
	Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@...labs.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] copy_signal cleanup: clean acct_init_pacct() and
 taskstats_tgid_init()

* Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com> [2009-12-04 15:29:01]:

> Remove unneeded initializations in acct_init_pacct() and taskstats_tgid_init().
> These are accessed only via copy_signal() and are useless after using
> kmem_cache_zalloc() in copy_signal().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>

As Oleg suggested, please reorder the cleanup to remove the empty
functions.

-- 
	Balbir
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