vfork: kill PF_STARTING

Previously it was (ab)used by utrace.  Then it was wrongly used by the
scheduler code.

Currently it is not used, kill it before it finds the new erroneous user.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 11fcafaf4ae4403642077fccb40a5c7a5fe2d3d9..0657368bd78fb9207369b484fa2aa294f90ce5dc 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1777,7 +1777,6 @@ extern void thread_group_times(struct task_struct *p, cputime_t *ut, cputime_t *
 /*
  * Per process flags
  */
-#define PF_STARTING    0x00000002      /* being created */
 #define PF_EXITING     0x00000004      /* getting shut down */
 #define PF_EXITPIDONE  0x00000008      /* pi exit done on shut down */
 #define PF_VCPU                0x00000010      /* I'm a virtual CPU */

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 44b0e21af50e5cb6a468248d716e1b39183f11ea..26a7a6707fa738e181a6b397d8ba9bea47269deb 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1046,7 +1046,6 @@ static void copy_flags(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)
 
        new_flags &= ~(PF_SUPERPRIV | PF_WQ_WORKER);
        new_flags |= PF_FORKNOEXEC;
-       new_flags |= PF_STARTING;
        p->flags = new_flags;
 }
 
@@ -1579,14 +1578,6 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
                        get_task_struct(p);
                }
 
-               /*
-                * We set PF_STARTING at creation in case tracing wants to
-                * use this to distinguish a fully live task from one that
-                * hasn't finished SIGSTOP raising yet.  Now we clear it
-                * and set the child going.
-                */
-               p->flags &= ~PF_STARTING;
-
                wake_up_new_task(p);
 
                /* forking complete and child started to run, tell ptracer */