From 6883f81aac6f44e7df70a6af189b3689ff52cbfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 04:32:13 -0500 Subject: pid: Implement PIDTYPE_TGID Everywhere except in the pid array we distinguish between a tasks pid and a tasks tgid (thread group id). Even in the enumeration we want that distinction sometimes so we have added __PIDTYPE_TGID. With leader_pid we almost have an implementation of PIDTYPE_TGID in struct signal_struct. Add PIDTYPE_TGID as a first class member of the pid_type enumeration and into the pids array. Then remove the __PIDTYPE_TGID special case and the leader_pid in signal_struct. The net size increase is just an extra pointer added to struct pid and an extra pair of pointers of an hlist_node added to task_struct. The effect on code maintenance is the removal of a number of special cases today and the potential to remove many more special cases as PIDTYPE_TGID gets used to it's fullest. The long term potential is allowing zombie thread group leaders to exit, which will remove a lot more special cases in the code. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" --- kernel/pid.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/pid.c') diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c index f8486d2e2346..de1cfc4f75a2 100644 --- a/kernel/pid.c +++ b/kernel/pid.c @@ -269,8 +269,6 @@ static struct pid **task_pid_ptr(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type type) { return (type == PIDTYPE_PID) ? &task->thread_pid : - (type == __PIDTYPE_TGID) ? - &task->signal->leader_pid : &task->signal->pids[type]; } -- cgit v1.2.3