From 2ee0826085d1c0281cb60c1f4bc3e0c27efeedc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Rapoport Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 15:40:17 -0800 Subject: pids: introduce find_get_task_by_vpid() helper There are several functions that do find_task_by_vpid() followed by get_task_struct(). We can use a helper function instead. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509602027-11337-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c | 13 +++---------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/ia64') diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c index c44f002e8f6b..858602494096 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c @@ -2610,17 +2610,10 @@ pfm_get_task(pfm_context_t *ctx, pid_t pid, struct task_struct **task) if (pid < 2) return -EPERM; if (pid != task_pid_vnr(current)) { - - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); - - p = find_task_by_vpid(pid); - /* make sure task cannot go away while we operate on it */ - if (p) get_task_struct(p); - - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); - - if (p == NULL) return -ESRCH; + p = find_get_task_by_vpid(pid); + if (!p) + return -ESRCH; } ret = pfm_task_incompatible(ctx, p); -- cgit