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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] pidhash: don't use zero pids
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:28:07 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43DF3BB7.B423AC08@tv-sign.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43DEFFB7.6010404@sw.ru>

Hello Kirill,

Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> 
> Hello Oleg,
> 
> I had quite the same comment, but had no time to check it.
> I can't understand what problem do you solve, or just making code
> cleaner (from your point of view)?

Please look at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=113851660700001

> For me it was quite natural that pid=0 is used by idle, and I'm very
> suspicuos about such changes.

This patch does not change idle's pid, it is still 0. It changes ->pgrp
and ->session only from 0 to 1. Currently kernel threads run with 0,0
unless they call daemonize() which does set_special_pids(1, 1).

Oleg.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-31  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-30 11:06 Oleg Nesterov
2006-01-30 20:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-31  6:12   ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-01-31 10:28     ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2006-01-31 15:02       ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-30 22:43 ` Eric W. Biederman

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