Re: [PATCH] don't use task->pid/tgid in same_thread_group/has_group_leader_pid

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Wed May 29 2013 - 16:55:22 EST


Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> task_struct->pid/tgid should go away.
>
> 1. Change same_thread_group() to use task->signal for comparison.
>
> 2. Change has_group_leader_pid(task) to compare task_pid(task) with
> signal->leader_pid.

Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

This change looks good, thanks.

The posix cpu timers usage of has_group_leader_pid looks a little iffy,
but this change doesn't look like it will break them.

Thanks for this cleanup Oleg.

> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/sched.h | 8 ++++----
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
> index 178a8d9..ce51dfd 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -2179,15 +2179,15 @@ static inline bool thread_group_leader(struct task_struct *p)
> * all we care about is that we have a task with the appropriate
> * pid, we don't actually care if we have the right task.
> */
> -static inline int has_group_leader_pid(struct task_struct *p)
> +static inline bool has_group_leader_pid(struct task_struct *p)
> {
> - return p->pid == p->tgid;
> + return task_pid(p) == p->signal->leader_pid;
> }
>
> static inline
> -int same_thread_group(struct task_struct *p1, struct task_struct *p2)
> +bool same_thread_group(struct task_struct *p1, struct task_struct *p2)
> {
> - return p1->tgid == p2->tgid;
> + return p1->signal == p2->signal;
> }
>
> static inline struct task_struct *next_thread(const struct task_struct *p)
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