Commit-ID: bb8cbbfee68518796df4050868e5b0f5ad078f9f Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/bb8cbbfee68518796df4050868e5b0f5ad078f9f Author: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 15:36:12 +0100 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> CommitDate: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:50:50 +0100 tasks/fork: Remove unnecessary child->exit_state A zombie task obviously can't fork(), remove the unnecessary initialization of child->exit_state. It is zero anyway after dup_task_struct(). Note: copy_process() is huge and it has a lot of chaotic initializations, probably it makes sense to move them into the new helper called by dup_task_struct(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131113143612.GA10540@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/fork.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 728d5be..b308082 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1402,13 +1402,11 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags, p->tgid = p->pid; } - p->pdeath_signal = 0; - p->exit_state = 0; - p->nr_dirtied = 0; p->nr_dirtied_pause = 128 >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10); p->dirty_paused_when = 0; + p->pdeath_signal = 0; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->thread_group); p->task_works = NULL; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html