linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] pids: introduce find_get_task_by

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Date:   Mon, 30 Oct 2017 19:51:42 +1100
From:   Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pids: introduce find_get_task_by_vpid helper

On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 4:52 AM, Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> There are several functions that do find_task_by_vpid() followed by
> get_task_struct(). We can use a helper function instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---

I did a quick grep and found other similar patterns in
kernel/events/core.c, kernel/kcmp.c
kernel/sys.c , kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c,
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_rdt_rdtgroup.c,
security/yama/yama_lsm.c, mm/process_vm_access.c, mm/mempolicy.c and
arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c


Balbir Singh.