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Re: Member session missing in signal_struct for 2.6.30-rc5
- From: Wenji Huang <wenji dot huang at oracle dot com>
- To: wenji dot huang at oracle dot com
- Cc: SystemTAP <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 13:48:15 +0800
- Subject: Re: Member session missing in signal_struct for 2.6.30-rc5
- References: <4A0BAF81.20606@oracle.com>
- Reply-to: wenji dot huang at oracle dot com
Wenji Huang wrote:
Hi,
The commit in kernel
signals: check_kill_permission: check session under tasklist_lock
author Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:53:01 +0000 (00:53 -0700)
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:29:37 +0000 (08:29 -0700)
commit 2e2ba22ea4fd4bb85f0fa37c521066db6775cbef
Sorry, paste the wrong text. See
author Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:58:39 +0000 (16:58 -0700)
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 3 Apr 2009 02:05:02 +0000 (19:05 -0700)
commit 1b0f7ffd0ea27cd3a0b9ca04e3df9522048c32a3
pids: kill signal_struct-> __pgrp/__session and friends
We are wasting 2 words in signal_struct without any reason to implement
task_pgrp_nr() and task_session_nr().
task_session_nr() has no callers since
2e2ba22ea4fd4bb85f0fa37c521066db6775cbef, we can remove it.
task_pgrp_nr() is still (I believe wrongly) used in fs/autofsX and
fs/coda.
This patch reimplements task_pgrp_nr() via task_pgrp_nr_ns(), and kills
__pgrp/__session and the related helpers.
The change in drivers/char/tty_io.c is cosmetic, but hopefully makes
sense anyway.
removed member session from signal_struct. This results in
compilation error for sid() on latest kernel.
I haven't found the replacement for the member or alike function.
Guess need to make it available under %kernel_v or other solution
if someone had.
Regards,
Wenji