[PATCH] pidspace: is_init()

This is an updated version of Eric Biederman's is_init() patch.
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/6/280).  It applies cleanly to 2.6.18-rc3 and
replaces a few more instances of ->pid == 1 with is_init().

Further, is_init() checks pid and thus removes dependency on Eric's other
patches for now.

Eric's original description:

	There are a lot of places in the kernel where we test for init
	because we give it special properties.  Most  significantly init
	must not die.  This results in code all over the kernel test
	->pid == 1.

	Introduce is_init to capture this case.

	With multiple pid spaces for all of the cases affected we are
	looking for only the first process on the system, not some other
	process that has pid == 1.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <[email protected]>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Sukadev Bhattiprolu 2006-09-29 02:00:07 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit f400e198b2
29 changed files with 41 additions and 30 deletions

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@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ bad_area:
*/
out_of_memory:
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
if (current->pid == 1) {
if (is_init(current)) {
yield();
down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
goto survive;