On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 06:44:47PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 07:34:00PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote: > > The only remaining function callable outside of kernel/fork.c is > > _do_fork(). It doesn't really follow the naming of kernel-internal > > syscall helpers as Christoph righly pointed out. Switch all callers and > > references to kernel_clone() and remove _do_fork() once and for all. > > My only concern is around return type. long, int, pid_t ... can we > choose one and stick to it? pid_t is probably the right return type > within the kernel, despite the return type of clone3(). It'll save us > some work if we ever go through the hassle of growing pid_t beyond 31-bit. We have at least the futex ABI restricting PID space to 30 bits.
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