linux-kernel - [patch 01/11] fork: collapse copy_flags into copy

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Date:	Tue, 4 Mar 2014 19:58:41 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@...wei.com>,
	Tim Hockin <thockin@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 01/11] fork: collapse copy_flags into copy_process

copy_flags() does not use the clone_flags formal and can be collapsed
into copy_process() for cleaner code.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
---
 kernel/fork.c | 12 ++----------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1069,15 +1069,6 @@ static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static void copy_flags(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)
-{
-	unsigned long new_flags = p->flags;
-
-	new_flags &= ~(PF_SUPERPRIV | PF_WQ_WORKER);
-	new_flags |= PF_FORKNOEXEC;
-	p->flags = new_flags;
-}
-
 SYSCALL_DEFINE1(set_tid_address, int __user *, tidptr)
 {
 	current->clear_child_tid = tidptr;
@@ -1227,7 +1218,8 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
 		goto bad_fork_cleanup_count;
 
 	delayacct_tsk_init(p);	/* Must remain after dup_task_struct() */
-	copy_flags(clone_flags, p);
+	p->flags &= ~(PF_SUPERPRIV | PF_WQ_WORKER);
+	p->flags |= PF_FORKNOEXEC;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->children);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->sibling);
 	rcu_copy_process(p);
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