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authorDavidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>2017-06-14 19:37:30 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-06-20 12:48:37 +0200
commitf11cc0760b8397e0d230122606421b6a96e9f869 (patch)
tree64bdf2282b63dff6d2a5203376d5c640cc234f28
parent902b31941327a0e9c0ca9eb7750414ae41bf8a89 (diff)
sched/core: Drop the unused try_get_task_struct() helper function
This function was introduced by: 150593bf8693 ("sched/api: Introduce task_rcu_dereference() and try_get_task_struct()") ... to allow easier usage of task_rcu_dereference(), however no users were ever added. Drop the helper. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dave@stgolabs.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170615023730.22827-1-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sched/task.h2
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c13
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched/task.h b/include/linux/sched/task.h
index a978d7189cfd..f0f065c5afcf 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/task.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/task.h
@@ -95,8 +95,6 @@ static inline void put_task_struct(struct task_struct *t)
}
struct task_struct *task_rcu_dereference(struct task_struct **ptask);
-struct task_struct *try_get_task_struct(struct task_struct **ptask);
-
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
extern int arch_task_struct_size __read_mostly;
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 7d694437ab44..c63226283aef 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -318,19 +318,6 @@ void rcuwait_wake_up(struct rcuwait *w)
rcu_read_unlock();
}
-struct task_struct *try_get_task_struct(struct task_struct **ptask)
-{
- struct task_struct *task;
-
- rcu_read_lock();
- task = task_rcu_dereference(ptask);
- if (task)
- get_task_struct(task);
- rcu_read_unlock();
-
- return task;
-}
-
/*
* Determine if a process group is "orphaned", according to the POSIX
* definition in 2.2.2.52. Orphaned process groups are not to be affected