Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] copy_signal cleanup: clean thread_group_cputime_init()

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

On 12/04, Veaceslav Falico wrote:
>
> Remove unneeded initializations in thread_group_cputime_init() and
> in posix_cpu_timers_init_group(). They are useless after
> kmem_cache_zalloc() was used in copy_signal().
>
> Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
> index 75e6e60..4778ef7 100644
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -825,17 +825,6 @@ static void posix_cpu_timers_init_group(struct
> signal_struct *sig)
>     /* Thread group counters. */
>     thread_group_cputime_init(sig);
>
> -   /* Expiration times and increments. */
> -   sig->it[CPUCLOCK_PROF].expires = cputime_zero;
> -   sig->it[CPUCLOCK_PROF].incr = cputime_zero;
> -   sig->it[CPUCLOCK_VIRT].expires = cputime_zero;
> -   sig->it[CPUCLOCK_VIRT].incr = cputime_zero;
> -
> -   /* Cached expiration times. */
> -   sig->cputime_expires.prof_exp = cputime_zero;
> -   sig->cputime_expires.virt_exp = cputime_zero;
> -   sig->cputime_expires.sched_exp = 0;
> -
>     if (sig->rlim[RLIMIT_CPU].rlim_cur != RLIM_INFINITY) {
>         sig->cputime_expires.prof_exp =
>             secs_to_cputime(sig->rlim[RLIMIT_CPU].rlim_cur);
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -2419,9 +2419,7 @@ void thread_group_cputimer(struct task_struct *tsk, struct task_cputime *times);
>
>  static inline void thread_group_cputime_init(struct signal_struct *sig)
>  {
> -	sig->cputimer.cputime = INIT_CPUTIME;
>  	spin_lock_init(&sig->cputimer.lock);
> -	sig->cputimer.running = 0;
>  }

Perhaps it makes sense to move thread_group_cputimer() into kernel/fork.c,
or even fold it into its single caller, posix_cpu_timers_init_group().

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>