linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/3] fork: no need to initialize child->exit

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Date:	Wed, 13 Nov 2013 15:36:12 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] fork: no need to initialize child->exit_state

A zombie task obviously can't fork(), remove the unnecessary
initialization of child->exit_state. It is zero anyway after
dup_task_struct().

Note: copy_process() is huge and it has a lot of chaotic
initializations, probably it makes sense to move them into the
new helper called by dup_task_struct().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/fork.c |    4 +---
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 8531609..2cb6024 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1405,13 +1405,11 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
 		p->tgid = p->pid;
 	}
 
-	p->pdeath_signal = 0;
-	p->exit_state = 0;
-
 	p->nr_dirtied = 0;
 	p->nr_dirtied_pause = 128 >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
 	p->dirty_paused_when = 0;
 
+	p->pdeath_signal = 0;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->thread_group);
 	p->task_works = NULL;
 
-- 
1.5.5.1

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