[PATCH] proc: Rewrite the proc dentry flush on exit optimization

To keep the dcache from filling up with dead /proc entries we flush them on
process exit.  However over the years that code has gotten hairy with a
dentry_pointer and a lock in task_struct and misdocumented as a correctness
feature.

I have rewritten this code to look and see if we have a corresponding entry in
the dcache and if so flush it on process exit.  This removes the extra fields
in the task_struct and allows me to trivially handle the case of a
/proc/<tgid>/task/<pid> entry as well as the current /proc/<pid> entries.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h
index 41ecbb847f32..e127ef7e8da8 100644
--- a/include/linux/init_task.h
+++ b/include/linux/init_task.h
@@ -119,7 +119,6 @@ extern struct group_info init_groups;
                 .signal = {{0}}},                                       \
         .blocked        = {{0}},                                        \
         .alloc_lock     = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED,                           \
-        .proc_lock      = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED,                           \
         .journal_info   = NULL,                                         \
         .cpu_timers     = INIT_CPU_TIMERS(tsk.cpu_timers),              \
         .fs_excl        = ATOMIC_INIT(0),                               \