[PATCH] pidhash: don't count idle threads

fork_idle() does unhash_process() just after copy_process().  Contrary,
boot_cpu's idle thread explicitely registers itself for each pid_type with nr
= 0.

copy_process() already checks p->pid != 0 before process_counts++, I think we
can just skip attach_pid() calls and job control inits for idle threads and
kill unhash_process().  We don't need to cleanup ->proc_dentry in fork_idle()
because with this patch idle threads are never hashed in
kernel/pid.c:pid_hash[].

We don't need to hash pid == 0 in pidmap_init().  free_pidmap() is never
called with pid == 0 arg, so it will never be reused.  So it is still possible
to use pid == 0 in any PIDTYPE_xxx namespace from kernel/pid.c's POV.

However with this patch we don't hash pid == 0 for PIDTYPE_PID case.  We still
have have PIDTYPE_PGID/PIDTYPE_SID entries with pid == 0: /sbin/init and
kernel threads which don't call daemonize().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/smp.c b/arch/um/kernel/smp.c
index c8d8d0ac1a7f..511116aebaf7 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/smp.c
@@ -143,7 +143,6 @@ void smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int maxcpus)
 		idle = idle_thread(cpu);
 
 		init_idle(idle, cpu);
-		unhash_process(idle);
 
 		waittime = 200000000;
 		while (waittime-- && !cpu_isset(cpu, cpu_callin_map))