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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2017-06-04 11:32:13 +0200
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2018-07-21 17:43:12 +0200
commit6883f81aac6f44e7df70a6af189b3689ff52cbfb (patch)
tree184e376d23aa5ea7321e22f23dd78a3c77c74a63 /kernel/events
parentpids: Move the pgrp and session pid pointers from task_struct to signal_struct (diff)
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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" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 80cca2b30c4f..9025b1796ca8 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -1334,7 +1334,7 @@ static u32 perf_event_pid_type(struct perf_event *event, struct task_struct *p,
static u32 perf_event_pid(struct perf_event *event, struct task_struct *p)
{
- return perf_event_pid_type(event, p, __PIDTYPE_TGID);
+ return perf_event_pid_type(event, p, PIDTYPE_TGID);
}
static u32 perf_event_tid(struct perf_event *event, struct task_struct *p)