[Lse-tech] [PATCH 00/01] Move Exit Connectors

[Matt H. <mat...@us...>]

On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 15:17 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Matt Helsley <mat...@us...> wrote:
> >
> > > We need to move both proc_exit_connector(tsk) and
> > > cnstats_exit_connector(tsk) up to before exit_mm(tsk) statement.
> > > There are task statistics collected in task->mm and those stats
> > > will be lost after exit_mm(tsk).
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > >  - jay
> > > 
> > > > 	exit_notify(tsk);
> > > > #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> > > > 	mpol_free(tsk->mempolicy);
> > > >-
> > 
> > 	Good point. The assignment of the task exit code will also have to move
> > up before exit_mm(tsk) because the process event connector exit function
> > retrieves the exit code from the task struct.
> 
> Could someone please volunteer to do the patch?

Here are two separate patches (not a series).

The first simply moves the process event connector north of exit_mm().
It applies to a clean 2.6.15 kernel. Please consider it for -mm.

The second patch moves both -- it's intended to be applied on top of
Shailabh's series of patches.

Cheers,
	-Matt Helsley