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| author | Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> | 2008-07-25 12:48:37 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-07-25 21:53:45 +0400 |
| commit | dbda0de52618d13d1b927c7ba7bb839cfddc4e8c (patch) | |
| tree | 026bd6c9da6e6e81a21a6e47dcc738bddbb3fe22 | |
| parent | e49859e71e0318b564de1546bdc30fab738f9deb (diff) | |
| download | linux-dbda0de52618d13d1b927c7ba7bb839cfddc4e8c.tar.xz | |
pidns: remove find_task_by_pid, unused for a long time
It seems to me that it was a mistake marking this function as deprecated
and scheduling it for removal, rather than resolutely removing it after
the last caller's death.
Anyway - better late, then never.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/pid.h | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched.h | 6 |
3 files changed, 1 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 09c4a1efb8e3..721c71b86e06 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -138,24 +138,6 @@ Who: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> --------------------------- -What: find_task_by_pid -When: 2.6.26 -Why: With pid namespaces, calling this funciton will return the - wrong task when called from inside a namespace. - - The best way to save a task pid and find a task by this - pid later, is to find this task's struct pid pointer (or get - it directly from the task) and call pid_task() later. - - If someone really needs to get a task by its pid_t, then - he most likely needs the find_task_by_vpid() to get the - task from the same namespace as the current task is in, but - this may be not so in general. - -Who: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> - ---------------------------- - What: ACPI procfs interface When: July 2008 Why: ACPI sysfs conversion should be finished by January 2008. diff --git a/include/linux/pid.h b/include/linux/pid.h index ff1b2a5814d4..22921ac4cfd9 100644 --- a/include/linux/pid.h +++ b/include/linux/pid.h @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ extern struct pid_namespace init_pid_ns; * find_pid_ns() finds the pid in the namespace specified * find_vpid() finr the pid by its virtual id, i.e. in the current namespace * - * see also find_task_by_pid() set in include/linux/sched.h + * see also find_task_by_vpid() set in include/linux/sched.h */ extern struct pid *find_pid_ns(int nr, struct pid_namespace *ns); extern struct pid *find_vpid(int nr); diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 182da1550fad..354ef478a80d 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1715,8 +1715,6 @@ extern struct pid_namespace init_pid_ns; * finds a task by its pid in the specified namespace * find_task_by_vpid(): * finds a task by its virtual pid - * find_task_by_pid(): - * finds a task by its global pid * * see also find_vpid() etc in include/linux/pid.h */ @@ -1724,10 +1722,6 @@ extern struct pid_namespace init_pid_ns; extern struct task_struct *find_task_by_pid_type_ns(int type, int pid, struct pid_namespace *ns); -static inline struct task_struct *__deprecated find_task_by_pid(pid_t nr) -{ - return find_task_by_pid_type_ns(PIDTYPE_PID, nr, &init_pid_ns); -} extern struct task_struct *find_task_by_vpid(pid_t nr); extern struct task_struct *find_task_by_pid_ns(pid_t nr, struct pid_namespace *ns); |