[PATCH] introduce TASK_DEAD state

I am not sure about this patch, I am asking Ingo to take a decision.

task_struct->state == EXIT_DEAD is a very special case, to avoid a confusion
it makes sense to introduce a new state, TASK_DEAD, while EXIT_DEAD should
live only in ->exit_state as documented in sched.h.

Note that this state is not visible to user-space, get_task_state() masks off
unsuitable states.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 9763de334f09..a06fc89cf6e5 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ extern unsigned long weighted_cpuload(const int cpu);
 #define EXIT_DEAD               32
 /* in tsk->state again */
 #define TASK_NONINTERACTIVE     64
+#define TASK_DEAD               128
 
 #define __set_task_state(tsk, state_value)              \
         do { (tsk)->state = (state_value); } while (0)