Re: [GIT PULL] fork cleanup for v5.9

[Christian Brauner]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 09:31:28AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 01:28:01PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > High-level this does two main things:
> > 1. Remove the double export of both do_fork() and _do_fork() where do_fork()
> >    used the incosistent legacy clone calling convention. Now we only export
> >    _do_fork() which is based on struct kernel_clone_args.
> 
> Can we retire the _do_fork name as well please?  For one we really don't
> use single underscore prefix in the kernel, and we also try to avoid our
> normal __ prefixes if there is no non-prefixed vesion.  Also the name
> feels wrong, as this implements all of clone and not just fork.
> What about kernel_clone to match the name of the args structure?

Yep, sounds good. I actually had a patch for that but it introduced a
lot of jitter into the series because there's quite a few odd places
where _do_fork() is used.

> 
> Also none of them actaully is exported (thankfully!).

Ah, sorry that was confusing. What I meant was "exported" in the sense
of visible outside of the file not actually in the "useable from
modules" sense.

Thanks!
Christian