Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:55:34 +0300 Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|
| > On 03/21, Andrew Morton wrote:
| > >
| > > On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:45:16 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > >
| > > > On Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:23, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
| > > > > >
| > > > > > Could the freezer code be trying to freeze the idle thread as a
result?
| > > > >
| > > > > Yes. remove-the-likelypid-check-in-copy_process.patch make idle
threads
| > > > > visible to for_each_process/do_each_thread. Note also that idle
threads
| > > > > have ->mm != NULL. freezer, oom_kill, move_task_off_dead_cpu, etc,
should
| > > > > not see idle threads, but they do now.
| > > >
| > > > Well, I think this is a good enough reason for asking Andrew to drop
this
| > > > patch.
| > >
| > > Or we change the freezer to skip pid==0 tasks.
| >
| > I strongly disagree. In that case we should audit all users of
for_each_process.
| > Imho, this change is too dangerous. Actually, I personally think it is very
good
| > that idle threads are special and not visible, imho we should not change
this.
|
| OK, I'll tentatively drop remove-the-likelypid-check-in-copy_process.patch
Yes. Pls drop it for now. Here is the slightly modified
use-task_pgrp-task_session-in-copy_process.patch
This applies cleanly with remove-the-likelypid-check-in-copy_process.patch
removed.
---
From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [PATCH] Use task_pgrp() task_session() in copy_process().
Use task_pgrp() and task_session() in copy_process(), and
avoid find_pid() call when attaching the task to its process
group and session.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
kernel/fork.c | 9 +++------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Index: lx26-21-rc3-mm2/kernel/fork.c
===================================================================
--- lx26-21-rc3-mm2.orig/kernel/fork.c 2007-03-21 10:51:44.000000000 -0700
+++ lx26-21-rc3-mm2/kernel/fork.c 2007-03-21 10:53:48.000000000 -0700
@@ -1253,14 +1253,11 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(
tracehook_init_task(p);
if (thread_group_leader(p)) {
- pid_t pgid = process_group(current);
- pid_t sid = process_session(current);
-
p->signal->tty = current->signal->tty;
- p->signal->pgrp = pgid;
+ p->signal->pgrp = process_group(current);
set_signal_session(p->signal, process_session(current));
- attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PGID, find_pid(pgid));
- attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_SID, find_pid(sid));
+ attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PGID, task_pgrp(current));
+ attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_SID, task_session(current));
list_add_tail_rcu(&p->tasks, &init_task.tasks);
__get_cpu_var(process_counts)++;
-
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