On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 08:02:35PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 07/06, Andrey Vagin wrote:
> >
> > -static struct pid *
> > -get_children_pid(struct inode *inode, struct pid *pid_prev, loff_t pos)
> > +static struct task_struct *
> > +task_next_child(struct task_struct *parent, struct task_struct *prev, unsigned int pos)
> > {
>
> I won't really argue, just a question...
>
> So this patch changes it to accept/return task_struct rather pid. Why?
> it is better to get/put "struct pid" only, not the whole task_struct.
>
> If another caller want task_struct, the necessary conversion is simple.
Another caller wants task_struct.
Currently this function receives pid and converts it into task_struct, then
gets the next child and returns its pid. So I try to avoid extra
conversion in task_diag code.
> But again, I won't argue if you think this will complicate the non-proc
> users of this helper.
>
> Oleg.
>
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