Commit 55a101f8 authored by Oleg Nesterov's avatar Oleg Nesterov Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] kill PF_DEAD flag



After the previous change (->flags & PF_DEAD) <=> (->state == EXIT_DEAD), we
don't need PF_DEAD any longer.

Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 29b88492
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@@ -1061,7 +1061,6 @@ static inline void put_task_struct(struct task_struct *t)
					/* Not implemented yet, only for 486*/
#define PF_STARTING	0x00000002	/* being created */
#define PF_EXITING	0x00000004	/* getting shut down */
#define PF_DEAD		0x00000008	/* Dead */
#define PF_FORKNOEXEC	0x00000040	/* forked but didn't exec */
#define PF_SUPERPRIV	0x00000100	/* used super-user privileges */
#define PF_DUMPCORE	0x00000200	/* dumped core */
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@@ -953,10 +953,8 @@ fastcall NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code)
	if (tsk->splice_pipe)
		__free_pipe_info(tsk->splice_pipe);

	/* PF_DEAD causes final put_task_struct after we schedule. */
	preempt_disable();
	BUG_ON(tsk->flags & PF_DEAD);
	tsk->flags |= PF_DEAD;
	/* causes final put_task_struct in finish_task_switch(). */
	tsk->state = EXIT_DEAD;

	schedule();
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@@ -1755,27 +1755,27 @@ static inline void finish_task_switch(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev)
	__releases(rq->lock)
{
	struct mm_struct *mm = rq->prev_mm;
	unsigned long prev_task_flags;
	long prev_state;

	rq->prev_mm = NULL;

	/*
	 * A task struct has one reference for the use as "current".
	 * If a task dies, then it sets EXIT_ZOMBIE in tsk->exit_state and
	 * calls schedule one last time. The schedule call will never return,
	 * and the scheduled task must drop that reference.
	 * The test for EXIT_ZOMBIE must occur while the runqueue locks are
	 * If a task dies, then it sets EXIT_DEAD in tsk->state and calls
	 * schedule one last time. The schedule call will never return, and
	 * the scheduled task must drop that reference.
	 * The test for EXIT_DEAD must occur while the runqueue locks are
	 * still held, otherwise prev could be scheduled on another cpu, die
	 * there before we look at prev->state, and then the reference would
	 * be dropped twice.
	 *		Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
	 */
	prev_task_flags = prev->flags;
	prev_state = prev->state;
	finish_arch_switch(prev);
	finish_lock_switch(rq, prev);
	if (mm)
		mmdrop(mm);
	if (unlikely(prev_task_flags & PF_DEAD)) {
	if (unlikely(prev_state == EXIT_DEAD)) {
		/*
		 * Remove function-return probe instances associated with this
		 * task and put them back on the free list.
@@ -5153,7 +5153,7 @@ static void migrate_dead(unsigned int dead_cpu, struct task_struct *p)
	BUG_ON(p->exit_state != EXIT_ZOMBIE && p->exit_state != EXIT_DEAD);

	/* Cannot have done final schedule yet: would have vanished. */
	BUG_ON(p->flags & PF_DEAD);
	BUG_ON(p->state == EXIT_DEAD);

	get_task_struct(p);

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@@ -226,8 +226,8 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned long *ppoints)
		releasing = test_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE) ||
						p->flags & PF_EXITING;
		if (releasing) {
			/* PF_DEAD tasks have already released their mm */
			if (p->flags & PF_DEAD)
			/* TASK_DEAD tasks have already released their mm */
			if (p->state == EXIT_DEAD)
				continue;
			if (p->flags & PF_EXITING && p == current) {
				chosen = p;