[PATCH] pid: Implement transfer_pid and use it to simplify de_thread
In de_thread we move pids from one process to another, a rather ugly case.
The function transfer_pid makes it clear what we are doing, and makes the
action atomic. This is useful we ever want to atomically traverse the
process group and session lists, in a rcu safe manner.
Even if the atomic properties this change should be a win as transfer_pid
should be less code to execute than executing both attach_pid and
detach_pid, and this should make de_thread slightly smaller as only a
single function call needs to be emitted. The only downside is that the
code might be slower to execute as the odds are against transfer_pid being
in cache.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/pid.h b/include/linux/pid.h
index 29960b0..93da7e2 100644
--- a/include/linux/pid.h
+++ b/include/linux/pid.h
@@ -76,6 +76,8 @@
enum pid_type type, int nr));
extern void FASTCALL(detach_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type));
+extern void FASTCALL(transfer_pid(struct task_struct *old,
+ struct task_struct *new, enum pid_type));
/*
* look up a PID in the hash table. Must be called with the tasklist_lock