remove long deprecated CLONE_STOPPED flag.

From: Dave Jones
Date: Thu Dec 16 2010 - 00:38:37 EST


Can we remove this completely ? (like the untested patch below)

Dave

---
This warning was added in commit bdff746a3915f109bd13730b6847e33e17e91ed3
three years ago. 2.6.26 came and went. As far as I know, no-one is
actually using CLONE_STOPPED.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 2c79e92..ec07afe 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
#define CLONE_DETACHED 0x00400000 /* Unused, ignored */
#define CLONE_UNTRACED 0x00800000 /* set if the tracing process can't force CLONE_PTRACE on this clone */
#define CLONE_CHILD_SETTID 0x01000000 /* set the TID in the child */
-#define CLONE_STOPPED 0x02000000 /* Start in stopped state */
+/* 0x02000000 was previously the unused CLONE_STOPPED (Start in stopped state)
+ and is now available for re-use. */
#define CLONE_NEWUTS 0x04000000 /* New utsname group? */
#define CLONE_NEWIPC 0x08000000 /* New ipcs */
#define CLONE_NEWUSER 0x10000000 /* New user namespace */
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 3b159c5..5270bea 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1407,23 +1407,6 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
}

/*
- * We hope to recycle these flags after 2.6.26
- */
- if (unlikely(clone_flags & CLONE_STOPPED)) {
- static int __read_mostly count = 100;
-
- if (count > 0 && printk_ratelimit()) {
- char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN];
-
- count--;
- printk(KERN_INFO "fork(): process `%s' used deprecated "
- "clone flags 0x%lx\n",
- get_task_comm(comm, current),
- clone_flags & CLONE_STOPPED);
- }
- }
-
- /*
* When called from kernel_thread, don't do user tracing stuff.
*/
if (likely(user_mode(regs)))
@@ -1461,16 +1444,7 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
*/
p->flags &= ~PF_STARTING;

- if (unlikely(clone_flags & CLONE_STOPPED)) {
- /*
- * We'll start up with an immediate SIGSTOP.
- */
- sigaddset(&p->pending.signal, SIGSTOP);
- set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_SIGPENDING);
- __set_task_state(p, TASK_STOPPED);
- } else {
- wake_up_new_task(p, clone_flags);
- }
+ wake_up_new_task(p, clone_flags);

tracehook_report_clone_complete(trace, regs,
clone_flags, nr, p);
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