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Subject[patch 2/2] clone: prepare to recycle CLONE_DETACHED and CLONE_STOPPED
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Ulrich says that we never used these clone flags and that nothing should be
using them.

As we're down to only a single bit left in clone's flags argument, let's add a
warning to check that no userspace is actually using these. Hopefully we will
be able to recycle them.

Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

kernel/fork.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff -puN kernel/fork.c~clone-prepare-to-recycle-clone_detached-and-clone_stopped kernel/fork.c
--- a/kernel/fork.c~clone-prepare-to-recycle-clone_detached-and-clone_stopped
+++ a/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1420,10 +1420,18 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
int trace = 0;
long nr;

- if (unlikely(current->ptrace)) {
- trace = fork_traceflag (clone_flags);
- if (trace)
- clone_flags |= CLONE_PTRACE;
+ /*
+ * We hope to recycle these flags after 2.6.26
+ */
+ if (unlikely(clone_flags & (CLONE_DETACHED|CLONE_STOPPED))) {
+ if (printk_ratelimit()) {
+ char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN];
+
+ printk(KERN_INFO "fork(): process `%s' used deprecated "
+ "clone flags 0x%lx\n",
+ get_task_comm(comm, current),
+ clone_flags & (CLONE_DETACHED|CLONE_STOPPED));
+ }
}

p = copy_process(clone_flags, stack_start, regs, stack_size,
_
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