linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 8/8] redefine thread_group_leader() as exit

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Date:	Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:56:38 +0200
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	hch@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] redefine thread_group_leader() as exit_signal >= 0

Hello,

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:10:26PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Change de_thread() to set old_leader->exit_signal = -1. This is
> good for the consistency, it is no longer the leader and all
> sub-threads have exit_signal = -1 set by copy_process(CLONE_THREAD).
> 
> And this allows us to micro-optimize thread_group_leader(), it can
> simply check exit_signal >= 0. This also makes sense because we
> should move ->group_leader from task_struct to signal_struct.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>

Patches 5-8 look correct to me but I frankly don't know the area
enough to assert acked-by's.  Please feel free to add reviewed-by's
tho.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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