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| author | Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> | 2020-08-19 13:46:45 +0300 |
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| committer | Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> | 2020-08-20 14:12:57 +0300 |
| commit | cad6967ac10843a70842cd39c7b53412901dd21f (patch) | |
| tree | c58cc9dfc0687439edef762daed0b88da79461fa /include/linux/sched | |
| parent | 9123e3a74ec7b934a4a099e98af6a61c2f80bbf5 (diff) | |
| download | linux-cad6967ac10843a70842cd39c7b53412901dd21f.tar.xz | |
fork: introduce kernel_clone()
The old _do_fork() helper doesn't follow naming conventions of in-kernel
helpers for syscalls. The process creation cleanup in [1] didn't change the
name to something more reasonable mainly because _do_fork() was used in quite a
few places. So sending this as a separate series seemed the better strategy.
This commit does two things:
1. renames _do_fork() to kernel_clone() but keeps _do_fork() as a simple static
inline wrapper around kernel_clone().
2. Changes the return type from long to pid_t. This aligns kernel_thread() and
kernel_clone(). Also, the return value from kernel_clone that is surfaced in
fork(), vfork(), clone(), and clone3() is taken from pid_vrn() which returns
a pid_t too.
Follow-up patches will switch each caller of _do_fork() and each place where it
is referenced over to kernel_clone(). After all these changes are done, we can
remove _do_fork() completely and will only be left with kernel_clone().
[1]: 9ba27414f2ec ("Merge tag 'fork-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux")
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200819104655.436656-2-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/sched')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched/task.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched/task.h b/include/linux/sched/task.h index a98965007eef..d4428039c3c1 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched/task.h +++ b/include/linux/sched/task.h @@ -83,7 +83,11 @@ extern void do_group_exit(int); extern void exit_files(struct task_struct *); extern void exit_itimers(struct signal_struct *); -extern long _do_fork(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs); +extern pid_t kernel_clone(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs); +static inline long _do_fork(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs) +{ + return kernel_clone(kargs); +} struct task_struct *fork_idle(int); struct mm_struct *copy_init_mm(void); extern pid_t kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags); |