The patch titled
copy_signal() cleanup: use zalloc and remove initializations
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
copy_signal-cleanup-use-zalloc-and-remove-initializations.patch
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Subject: copy_signal() cleanup: use zalloc and remove initializations
From: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@xxxxxxxxxx>
Use kmem_cache_zalloc() on signal creation and remove unneeded
initialization lines in copy_signal().
Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/fork.c | 27 +--------------------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 26 deletions(-)
diff -puN kernel/fork.c~copy_signal-cleanup-use-zalloc-and-remove-initializations kernel/fork.c
--- a/kernel/fork.c~copy_signal-cleanup-use-zalloc-and-remove-initializations
+++ a/kernel/fork.c
@@ -859,7 +859,7 @@ static int copy_signal(unsigned long clo
if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD)
return 0;
- sig = kmem_cache_alloc(signal_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+ sig = kmem_cache_zalloc(signal_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
tsk->signal = sig;
if (!sig)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -867,46 +867,21 @@ static int copy_signal(unsigned long clo
atomic_set(&sig->count, 1);
atomic_set(&sig->live, 1);
init_waitqueue_head(&sig->wait_chldexit);
- sig->flags = 0;
if (clone_flags & CLONE_NEWPID)
sig->flags |= SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE;
- sig->group_exit_code = 0;
- sig->group_exit_task = NULL;
- sig->group_stop_count = 0;
sig->curr_target = tsk;
init_sigpending(&sig->shared_pending);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sig->posix_timers);
hrtimer_init(&sig->real_timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
- sig->it_real_incr.tv64 = 0;
sig->real_timer.function = it_real_fn;
- sig->leader = 0; /* session leadership doesn't inherit */
- sig->tty_old_pgrp = NULL;
- sig->tty = NULL;
-
- sig->utime = sig->stime = sig->cutime = sig->cstime = cputime_zero;
- sig->gtime = cputime_zero;
- sig->cgtime = cputime_zero;
-#ifndef CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
- sig->prev_utime = sig->prev_stime = cputime_zero;
-#endif
- sig->nvcsw = sig->nivcsw = sig->cnvcsw = sig->cnivcsw = 0;
- sig->min_flt = sig->maj_flt = sig->cmin_flt = sig->cmaj_flt = 0;
- sig->inblock = sig->oublock = sig->cinblock = sig->coublock = 0;
- sig->maxrss = sig->cmaxrss = 0;
- task_io_accounting_init(&sig->ioac);
- sig->sum_sched_runtime = 0;
- taskstats_tgid_init(sig);
-
task_lock(current->group_leader);
memcpy(sig->rlim, current->signal->rlim, sizeof sig->rlim);
task_unlock(current->group_leader);
posix_cpu_timers_init_group(sig);
- acct_init_pacct(&sig->pacct);
-
tty_audit_fork(sig);
sig->oom_adj = current->signal->oom_adj;
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from vfalico@xxxxxxxxxx are
copy_signal-cleanup-use-zalloc-and-remove-initializations.patch
copy_signal-cleanup-kill-taskstats_tgid_init-and-acct_init_pacct.patch
copy_signal-cleanup-clean-thread_group_cputime_init.patch
copy_signal-cleanup-clean-tty_audit_fork.patch
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