Re: [PATCH -mm] introduce tracehook_finish_jctl() helper

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 07/29, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:01:40 +0200
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > +static inline void tracehook_finish_jctl(void)
> > +{
> > +}
> > +
> >  #define DEATH_REAP			-1
> >  #define DEATH_DELAYED_GROUP_LEADER	-2
> >
> > --- __UTRACE/kernel/signal.c~2_FINISH_JCTL	2009-07-29 03:17:49.000000000 +0200
> > +++ __UTRACE/kernel/signal.c	2009-07-29 03:57:07.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -1735,12 +1735,12 @@ static int do_signal_stop(int signr)
> >  		read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> >  	}
> >
> > +	/* Now we don't run again until woken by SIGCONT or SIGKILL */
> >  	do {
> >  		schedule();
> >  	} while (try_to_freeze());
> > -	/*
> > -	 * Now we don't run again until continued.
> > -	 */
> > +
> > +	tracehook_finish_jctl();
> >  	current->exit_code = 0;
> >
>
> Confused.  This patch has no effect.

Yes, currently tracehook_finish_jctl() does nothing. This patch is
needed to add the functional changes later, without touching the code
outside of tracehook/etc. It is like tracehook_notify_resume() which
does nothing until we add the real tracing.

Oleg.

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