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

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Message-ID: <20171031163906.GA576@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 31 Oct 2017 17:39:07 +0100
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.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>,
        Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.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 10/27, Mike Rapoport 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>
> ---
>
> v2: remove  futex_find_get_task() and ptrace_get_task_struct() as Oleg
> suggested

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>