Re: [PATCH v4 3/6] cgroup: refactor fork helpers

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Mon Jan 20 2020 - 09:33:41 EST


On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 03:22:03PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 01/20, Christian Brauner wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 03:00:30PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > > This is probably the only patch in series I can understand ;)
> > >
> > > To me it looks like a good cleanup regardless, but
> > >
> > > On 01/17, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The patch just passes in the parent task_struct
> > >
> > > For what? "parent" is always "current", no?
> >
> > Yes. What exactly are you hinting at? :) Would you prefer that the
> > commit message speaks of "current" instead of "parent"?
>
> I meant, I don't understand why did you add the new "parent" arg,
> cgroup_xxx_fork() can simply use "current" ?

There's no specific reason behind it. I don't care much whether it's an
arg or we just grab current in each helper directly.

Christian