[PATCH] pidhash: don't count idle threads

fork_idle() does unhash_process() just after copy_process().  Contrary,
boot_cpu's idle thread explicitely registers itself for each pid_type with nr
= 0.

copy_process() already checks p->pid != 0 before process_counts++, I think we
can just skip attach_pid() calls and job control inits for idle threads and
kill unhash_process().  We don't need to cleanup ->proc_dentry in fork_idle()
because with this patch idle threads are never hashed in
kernel/pid.c:pid_hash[].

We don't need to hash pid == 0 in pidmap_init().  free_pidmap() is never
called with pid == 0 arg, so it will never be reused.  So it is still possible
to use pid == 0 in any PIDTYPE_xxx namespace from kernel/pid.c's POV.

However with this patch we don't hash pid == 0 for PIDTYPE_PID case.  We still
have have PIDTYPE_PGID/PIDTYPE_SID entries with pid == 0: /sbin/init and
kernel threads which don't call daemonize().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 1f16fb1fea22..ddc0df7f8bf5 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1214,8 +1214,6 @@ static inline int thread_group_empty(task_t *p)
 #define delay_group_leader(p) \
 		(thread_group_leader(p) && !thread_group_empty(p))
 
-extern void unhash_process(struct task_struct *p);
-
 /*
  * Protects ->fs, ->files, ->mm, ->ptrace, ->group_info, ->comm, keyring
  * subscriptions and synchronises with wait4().  Also used in procfs.  Also