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pids: Move the pgrp and session pid pointers from task_struct to signal_struct

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To access these fields the code always has to go to group leader so
going to signal struct is no loss and is actually a fundamental simplification.

This saves a little bit of memory by only allocating the pid pointer array
once instead of once for every thread, and even better this removes a
few potential races caused by the fact that group_leader can be changed
by de_thread, while signal_struct can not.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman
2017-09-26 13:06:43 -05:00
parent 71dbc8a969
commit 2c4704756c
10 changed files with 78 additions and 73 deletions
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kernel/fork.c
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@@ -1549,10 +1549,22 @@ static void posix_cpu_timers_init(struct task_struct *tsk)
static inline void posix_cpu_timers_init(struct task_struct *tsk) { }
#endif
static inline void init_task_pid_links(struct task_struct *task)
{
enum pid_type type;
for (type = PIDTYPE_PID; type < PIDTYPE_MAX; ++type) {
INIT_HLIST_NODE(&task->pid_links[type]);
}
}
static inline void
init_task_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type type, struct pid *pid)
{
task->pids[type].pid = pid;
if (type == PIDTYPE_PID)
task->thread_pid = pid;
else
task->signal->pids[type] = pid;
}
static inline void rcu_copy_process(struct task_struct *p)
@@ -1928,6 +1940,7 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
goto bad_fork_cancel_cgroup;
}
init_task_pid_links(p);
if (likely(p->pid)) {
ptrace_init_task(p, (clone_flags & CLONE_PTRACE) || trace);
@@ -2036,13 +2049,13 @@ fork_out:
return ERR_PTR(retval);
}
static inline void init_idle_pids(struct pid_link *links)
static inline void init_idle_pids(struct task_struct *idle)
{
enum pid_type type;
for (type = PIDTYPE_PID; type < PIDTYPE_MAX; ++type) {
INIT_HLIST_NODE(&links[type].node); /* not really needed */
links[type].pid = &init_struct_pid;
INIT_HLIST_NODE(&idle->pid_links[type]); /* not really needed */
init_task_pid(idle, type, &init_struct_pid);
}
}
@@ -2052,7 +2065,7 @@ struct task_struct *fork_idle(int cpu)
task = copy_process(CLONE_VM, 0, 0, NULL, &init_struct_pid, 0, 0,
cpu_to_node(cpu));
if (!IS_ERR(task)) {
init_idle_pids(task->pids);
init_idle_pids(task);
init_idle(task, cpu);
}