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* Unoverload mmput functionality.
@ 1999-01-18 13:33 Eric W. Biederman
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From: Eric W. Biederman @ 1999-01-18 13:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Torvalds; +Cc: linux-kernel, linux-mm

Enclosed are 2 patches.
The first unoverloads the job of mmput.  

The problem is currently there are times that mmput is legitamently
called, (by procfs, or when we can't allocate a new page table).
Where we don't want to clear the segment registers, or wake up
a sleeping vfork.

So I have broken mmput into two functions
mmput & mm_release.  mm_release takes care of the chore
of detaching a mm_struct from the current task, and
mmput manages the mm_struct as it does now.


The second patch moves the vfork semaphore into do_fork,
so we can use clone(CLONE_VFORK | CLONE_VM | CLONE_SIGCHLD, ...)
to implement vfork.

Both patches are against 2.2.0-pre7 but they both apply
cleanly to pre-8.

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