Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] copy_signal cleanup: use zalloc and remove initializations

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 15:28:14 +0100
Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> wrote:

> Use kmem_cache_zalloc() on signal creation and remove unneeded initialization
> lines in copy_signal().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> index 166b8c4..160477d 100644
> @@ -855,7 +844,7 @@ static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)

For some reason this patch is missing its headers and doesn't apply.

I fixed that up and it still doesn't apply, because there are pending
changes in this area in -mm.

Normally I'd fix that up, but this one is looking a bit non-trivial, so
I'm afraid I'm going to ask you to redo the patches against
http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/

Alternatively, we could just hold them off until 2.6.34.  Wait until
2.6.33-rc1 is released then resend the patch series based on
2.6.33-rc1.  Perhaps this is a better approach, as we are now in the
2.6.33 merge window and it's a bit late to be introducing new material.

Either way, please do ensure that the next patch series retains all the
acked-by:'s which people have sent. 

Thanks.