From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81C3FC433E1 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2020 10:48:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67FAF206B5 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2020 10:48:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728004AbgHSKsA (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2020 06:48:00 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:53968 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726919AbgHSKra (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2020 06:47:30 -0400 Received: from ip5f5af70b.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de ([95.90.247.11] helo=wittgenstein.fritz.box) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k8Lco-0006IE-NK; Wed, 19 Aug 2020 10:47:22 +0000 From: Christian Brauner To: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jonathan Corbet , Yoshinori Sato , Tony Luck , Fenghua Yu , Geert Uytterhoeven , Ley Foon Tan , "David S. Miller" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , x86@kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann , Steven Rostedt , Stafford Horne , Peter Zijlstra , Kars de Jong , Kees Cook , Greentime Hu , "Eric W. Biederman" , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Alexandre Chartre , Masami Hiramatsu , Tom Zanussi , Xiao Yang , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hewllig , Matthew Wilcox , Christian Brauner Subject: [PATCH v2 00/11] Introduce kernel_clone(), kill _do_fork() Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 12:46:44 +0200 Message-Id: <20200819104655.436656-1-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.28.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hey everyone, This is a follow-up to the fork-related cleanup. It's based on a brief discussion after the initial series was merged. Last cycle we removed copy_thread_tls() and the associated Kconfig option for each architecture. Now we are only left with copy_thread(). Part of this work was removing the old do_fork() legacy clone()-style calling convention in favor of the new struct kernel_clone args calling convention. The only remaining function callable outside of kernel/fork.c is _do_fork(). It doesn't really follow the naming of kernel-internal syscall helpers as Christoph righly pointed out. Switch all callers and references to kernel_clone() and remove _do_fork() once and for all also switching the return value for kernel_clone() from long to pid_t since that's what we use in all other places where we're dealing with process identifiers. For all architectures I have done a full git rebase v5.9-rc1 -x "make -j31". There were no built failures and the changes were fairly mechanical. The only helpers we have left now are kernel_thread() and kernel_clone() where kernel_thread() just calls kernel_clone(). Thanks! Christian Christian Brauner (11): fork: introduce kernel_clone() h8300: switch to kernel_clone() ia64: switch to kernel_clone() m68k: switch to kernel_clone() nios2: switch to kernel_clone() sparc: switch to kernel_clone() x86: switch to kernel_clone() kprobes: switch to kernel_clone() kgdbts: switch to kernel_clone() tracing: switch to kernel_clone() sched: remove _do_fork() Documentation/trace/histogram.rst | 4 +- arch/h8300/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/ia64/kernel/process.c | 4 +- arch/m68k/kernel/process.c | 10 ++-- arch/nios2/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/sparc/kernel/process.c | 6 +-- arch/x86/kernel/sys_ia32.c | 2 +- drivers/misc/kgdbts.c | 48 +++++++++---------- include/linux/sched/task.h | 2 +- kernel/fork.c | 16 +++---- samples/kprobes/kprobe_example.c | 6 +-- samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c | 4 +- .../test.d/dynevent/add_remove_kprobe.tc | 2 +- .../test.d/dynevent/clear_select_events.tc | 2 +- .../test.d/dynevent/generic_clear_event.tc | 2 +- .../test.d/ftrace/func-filter-stacktrace.tc | 4 +- .../ftrace/test.d/kprobe/add_and_remove.tc | 2 +- .../ftrace/test.d/kprobe/busy_check.tc | 2 +- .../ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args.tc | 4 +- .../ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args_comm.tc | 2 +- .../test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args_string.tc | 4 +- .../test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args_symbol.tc | 10 ++-- .../ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args_type.tc | 2 +- .../ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_ftrace.tc | 14 +++--- .../ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_multiprobe.tc | 2 +- .../test.d/kprobe/kprobe_syntax_errors.tc | 12 ++--- .../ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kretprobe_args.tc | 4 +- .../selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/profile.tc | 2 +- 28 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 88 deletions(-) base-commit: 9123e3a74ec7b934a4a099e98af6a61c2f80bbf5 -- 2.28.0