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From: mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com (Mulyadi Santosa)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: how set_user_nice() function is called
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:59:11 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGdaadaDSRnBpZz0c8GB9qEriQu-cGw=91esi2NwvoZxXHwqng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA9-PzHr_gfBngOsaGmuNnoxGxPZV+oqN0ZWmTTPWeLxpULAtA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 00:31, Enes Albay - ??? ?????
<albayenes@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> anybody knows that where is set_user_nice() function called in the kernel?
> i couldn't find that. ?i just found that in forking operation
> do_fork()->copy_process()->
> dup_task_struct() called then set_user_nice()
> called but i couldn't find that where. Also how/where do_fork() function
> called in kernel i couldn't find.

In x86, do_fork() is called from sys_fork()... check :
http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.1.1/arch/x86/kernel/process.c#L235

While sys_fork() itself, since it's a syscall handler, is called from
entry.S. Please refer to:
http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.1.1/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S#L475



-- 
regards,

Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer and consultant

blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com
training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-21  1:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-20 17:31 how set_user_nice() function is called Enes Albay - انس الباى
2011-11-21  1:59 ` Mulyadi Santosa [this message]
2011-11-22 10:23   ` Enes Albay - انس الباى
2011-11-23  8:55     ` rohan puri

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