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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2017-09-26 20:06:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2018-07-21 17:43:12 +0200 |
| commit | 2c4704756cab7cfa031ada4dab361562f0e357c0 (patch) | |
| tree | 8757eb8762d60e34eeab747493759abf3f902c09 /kernel/events | |
| parent | kvm: Don't open code task_pid in kvm_vcpu_ioctl (diff) | |
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pids: Move the pgrp and session pid pointers from task_struct to signal_struct
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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