[Devel] Re: [PATCH 9/15] Move alloc_pid() after the namespace is cloned

[sukadev at us.ibm.com]

Pavel Emelianov [xemul at openvz.org] wrote:
| Oleg Nesterov wrote:
| >On 07/26, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
| >>This is a fix for Sukadev's patch that moved the alloc_pid() call from
| >>do_fork() into copy_process().
| >
| >... and this patch changes almost every line from Sukadev's patch.
| 
| It does. My bad :( I have reviewed Suka's patch badly and was sure it
| puts the alloc_pid() right where we need this.

I should have reviewed Pavel's closely too. Sorry.

| 
| >Sorry gents, but isn't it better to ask Andrew to drop that patch
| >(which is quite useless by itself), and send a new one which incorporates
| >all necessary changes? Imho, it would be much easier to understand.
| 
| Hm... Maybe it's better to ask him to fold these patches together?

I think so, but even dropping my patch is fine with me.

| 
| >>@@ -1406,7 +1422,13 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
| >>	if (!IS_ERR(p)) {
| >>		struct completion vfork;
| >>
| >>-		nr = pid_nr(task_pid(p));
| >>+		/*
| >>+		 * this is enough to call pid_nr_ns here, but this if
| >>+		 * improves optimisation of regular fork()
| >>+		 */
| >>+		nr = (clone_flags & CLONE_NEWPID) ?
| >>+			task_pid_nr_ns(p, current->nsproxy->pid_ns) :
| >>+				task_pid_vnr(p);
| >
| >Shouldn't we do the same for CLONE_PARENT_SETTID in copy_process() ?
| >Otherwise *parent_tidptr may have a wrong value which doesn't match
| >to what fork() returns.
| 
| Oops. We should. Thanks :)
| 
| >Oleg.
| 
| Thanks,
| Pavel