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SubjectRe: [PATCH] de_thread: Don't confuse users do_each_thread.
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Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de> writes:

> Hi Eric,
>
> On Tuesday, 11. April 2006 01:16, you wrote:
>> I can't seem to send out a correct patch out today with out
>> sending it twice. I accidently grabbed my old version
>> that sent to many arguments to detach_pid and so would not
>> compile. Oops.
>
> While you are at it: Could you please avoid calculating current over
> and over again?
>
> Just calculate it once and use the task_struct pointer.
>
> If I do this for some random occurances of "current" in fs/exec.c I get this
> on Linus' latest git tree:
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 9501 84 12 9597 257d old/fs/exec.o
> 9386 84 12 9482 250a new/fs/exec.o
>
> Do you see any side effects, except reduced size
> and increased performance here?

Not that I know of. I was cleaning up pids and signaling and wound
up in fixing de_thread. It is just an ugly beast.

> Is a patch doing this for the whole file welcome, if you are too busy?

I could probably spare a couple of minutes to help review such a patch.
Beyond de_thread I'm to busy to write such a patch.

Eric
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