sched: remove long deprecated CLONE_STOPPED flag

This warning was added in commit bdff746a3915 ("clone: prepare to recycle
CLONE_STOPPED") three years ago.  2.6.26 came and went.  As far as I know,
no-one is actually using CLONE_STOPPED.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 96e2321..0740253 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
 #define CLONE_DETACHED         0x00400000      /* Unused, ignored */
 #define CLONE_UNTRACED         0x00800000      /* set if the tracing process can't force CLONE_PTRACE on this clone */
 #define CLONE_CHILD_SETTID     0x01000000      /* set the TID in the child */
-#define CLONE_STOPPED          0x02000000      /* Start in stopped state */
+/* 0x02000000 was previously the unused CLONE_STOPPED (Start in stopped state)
+   and is now available for re-use. */
 #define CLONE_NEWUTS           0x04000000      /* New utsname group? */
 #define CLONE_NEWIPC           0x08000000      /* New ipcs */
 #define CLONE_NEWUSER          0x10000000      /* New user namespace */

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index d9b44f2..76a1fdd 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1409,23 +1409,6 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
                        return -EPERM;
        }
 
-       /*
-        * We hope to recycle these flags after 2.6.26
-        */
-       if (unlikely(clone_flags & CLONE_STOPPED)) {
-               static int __read_mostly count = 100;
-
-               if (count > 0 && printk_ratelimit()) {
-                       char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN];
-
-                       count--;
-                       printk(KERN_INFO "fork(): process `%s' used deprecated "
-                                       "clone flags 0x%lx\n",
-                               get_task_comm(comm, current),
-                               clone_flags & CLONE_STOPPED);
-               }
-       }
-
        /*
         * When called from kernel_thread, don't do user tracing stuff.
         */
@@ -1464,16 +1447,7 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
                 */
                p->flags &= ~PF_STARTING;
 
-               if (unlikely(clone_flags & CLONE_STOPPED)) {
-                       /*
-                        * We'll start up with an immediate SIGSTOP.
-                        */
-                       sigaddset(&p->pending.signal, SIGSTOP);
-                       set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_SIGPENDING);
-                       __set_task_state(p, TASK_STOPPED);
-               } else {
-                       wake_up_new_task(p, clone_flags);
-               }
+               wake_up_new_task(p, clone_flags);
 
                tracehook_report_clone_complete(trace, regs,
                                                clone_flags, nr, p);