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pidns: remove find_task_by_pid, unused for a long time
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It seems to me that it was a mistake marking this function as deprecated
and scheduling it for removal, rather than resolutely removing it after
the last caller's death.

Anyway - better late, then never.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Pavel Emelyanov authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jul 25, 2008
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18 changes: 0 additions & 18 deletions Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
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Expand Up @@ -138,24 +138,6 @@ Who: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>

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What: find_task_by_pid
When: 2.6.26
Why: With pid namespaces, calling this funciton will return the
wrong task when called from inside a namespace.

The best way to save a task pid and find a task by this
pid later, is to find this task's struct pid pointer (or get
it directly from the task) and call pid_task() later.

If someone really needs to get a task by its pid_t, then
he most likely needs the find_task_by_vpid() to get the
task from the same namespace as the current task is in, but
this may be not so in general.

Who: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>

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What: ACPI procfs interface
When: July 2008
Why: ACPI sysfs conversion should be finished by January 2008.
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion include/linux/pid.h
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Expand Up @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ extern struct pid_namespace init_pid_ns;
* find_pid_ns() finds the pid in the namespace specified
* find_vpid() finr the pid by its virtual id, i.e. in the current namespace
*
* see also find_task_by_pid() set in include/linux/sched.h
* see also find_task_by_vpid() set in include/linux/sched.h
*/
extern struct pid *find_pid_ns(int nr, struct pid_namespace *ns);
extern struct pid *find_vpid(int nr);
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6 changes: 0 additions & 6 deletions include/linux/sched.h
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Expand Up @@ -1715,19 +1715,13 @@ extern struct pid_namespace init_pid_ns;
* finds a task by its pid in the specified namespace
* find_task_by_vpid():
* finds a task by its virtual pid
* find_task_by_pid():
* finds a task by its global pid
*
* see also find_vpid() etc in include/linux/pid.h
*/

extern struct task_struct *find_task_by_pid_type_ns(int type, int pid,
struct pid_namespace *ns);

static inline struct task_struct *__deprecated find_task_by_pid(pid_t nr)
{
return find_task_by_pid_type_ns(PIDTYPE_PID, nr, &init_pid_ns);
}
extern struct task_struct *find_task_by_vpid(pid_t nr);
extern struct task_struct *find_task_by_pid_ns(pid_t nr,
struct pid_namespace *ns);
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