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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2017-06-04 04:32:13 -0500 |
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| committer | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2018-07-21 10:43:12 -0500 |
| commit | 6883f81aac6f44e7df70a6af189b3689ff52cbfb (patch) | |
| tree | 184e376d23aa5ea7321e22f23dd78a3c77c74a63 /include/linux/pid.h | |
| parent | 2c4704756cab7cfa031ada4dab361562f0e357c0 (diff) | |
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 'include/linux/pid.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/pid.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/pid.h b/include/linux/pid.h index 3d4c504dcc8c..14a9a39da9c7 100644 --- a/include/linux/pid.h +++ b/include/linux/pid.h @@ -7,11 +7,10 @@ enum pid_type { PIDTYPE_PID, + PIDTYPE_TGID, PIDTYPE_PGID, PIDTYPE_SID, PIDTYPE_MAX, - /* only valid to __task_pid_nr_ns() */ - __PIDTYPE_TGID }; /* |