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authorSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>2007-05-11 07:22:58 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-11 17:29:35 +0200
commite713d0dab21a68500720e222fa02567fc7dfb14b (patch)
treea56f90ce94d9287b73da6db72ed0e73542a70a07 /kernel/pid.c
parentrtc-rs5c313.c: add error handling to avoid hardware hangup (diff)
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attach_pid() with struct pid parameter
attach_pid() currently takes a pid_t and then uses find_pid() to find the corresponding struct pid. Sometimes we already have the struct pid. We can then skip find_pid() if attach_pid() were to take a struct pid parameter. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: <containers@lists.osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/pid.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/pid.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index d3ad724afa83..d76f59326bd4 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -247,13 +247,16 @@ struct pid * fastcall find_pid(int nr)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(find_pid);
-int fastcall attach_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type type, int nr)
+/*
+ * attach_pid() must be called with the tasklist_lock write-held.
+ */
+int fastcall attach_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type type,
+ struct pid *pid)
{
struct pid_link *link;
- struct pid *pid;
link = &task->pids[type];
- link->pid = pid = find_pid(nr);
+ link->pid = pid;
hlist_add_head_rcu(&link->node, &pid->tasks[type]);
return 0;