[PATCH] pidhash: don't count idle threads

fork_idle() does unhash_process() just after copy_process().  Contrary,
boot_cpu's idle thread explicitely registers itself for each pid_type with nr
= 0.

copy_process() already checks p->pid != 0 before process_counts++, I think we
can just skip attach_pid() calls and job control inits for idle threads and
kill unhash_process().  We don't need to cleanup ->proc_dentry in fork_idle()
because with this patch idle threads are never hashed in
kernel/pid.c:pid_hash[].

We don't need to hash pid == 0 in pidmap_init().  free_pidmap() is never
called with pid == 0 arg, so it will never be reused.  So it is still possible
to use pid == 0 in any PIDTYPE_xxx namespace from kernel/pid.c's POV.

However with this patch we don't hash pid == 0 for PIDTYPE_PID case.  We still
have have PIDTYPE_PGID/PIDTYPE_SID entries with pid == 0: /sbin/init and
kernel threads which don't call daemonize().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "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, 18 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 74c67629ee62..0c32e28cdc5f 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1181,25 +1181,26 @@ static task_t *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
          */
         p->ioprio = current->ioprio;
 
-        add_parent(p);
-        if (unlikely(p->ptrace & PT_PTRACED))
-                __ptrace_link(p, current->parent);
-
-        if (thread_group_leader(p)) {
-                p->signal->tty = current->signal->tty;
-                p->signal->pgrp = process_group(current);
-                p->signal->session = current->signal->session;
-                attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PGID, process_group(p));
-                attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_SID, p->signal->session);
-
-                list_add_tail(&p->tasks, &init_task.tasks);
-                if (p->pid)
+        if (likely(p->pid)) {
+                add_parent(p);
+                if (unlikely(p->ptrace & PT_PTRACED))
+                        __ptrace_link(p, current->parent);
+
+                if (thread_group_leader(p)) {
+                        p->signal->tty = current->signal->tty;
+                        p->signal->pgrp = process_group(current);
+                        p->signal->session = current->signal->session;
+                        attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PGID, process_group(p));
+                        attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_SID, p->signal->session);
+
+                        list_add_tail(&p->tasks, &init_task.tasks);
                         __get_cpu_var(process_counts)++;
+                }
+                attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_TGID, p->tgid);
+                attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PID, p->pid);
+                nr_threads++;
         }
-        attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_TGID, p->tgid);
-        attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PID, p->pid);
 
-        nr_threads++;
         total_forks++;
         spin_unlock(&current->sighand->siglock);
         write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
@@ -1263,7 +1264,7 @@ task_t * __devinit fork_idle(int cpu)
         if (!task)
                 return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
         init_idle(task, cpu);
-        unhash_process(task);
+
         return task;
 }