[PATCH] pid: change task_struct::pid to read-only

[Oleg Nesterov]

Richard, Peter,

sorry I deleted your emails by accident, so I am replying to my email.

Sure, ASSIGN_CONST() looks "dangerous". Still to me it is safer than
"(pid_t*)&(tsk->pid)" done by hand. And yes, it is visible to grep.

But the main point, it is much more readable. Just look at the change
below,

On 12/17, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > >  	if (!thread_group_leader(tsk)) {
> > >  		struct task_struct *leader = tsk->group_leader;
> > > +		/* tast_struct::pid is const pid_t, hence the ugly cast */
> > > +		pid_t *pid_p = (pid_t*)&(tsk->pid);
> > >
> > >  		sig->notify_count = -1;	/* for exit_notify() */
> > >  		for (;;) {
> > > @@ -950,7 +952,7 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct *tsk)
> > >  		 * Note: The old leader also uses this pid until release_task
> > >  		 *       is called.  Odd but simple and correct.
> > >  		 */
> > > -		tsk->pid = leader->pid;
> > > +		*pid_p = leader->pid;

Isn't it ugly to add the temporary? And this temporary is the pointer.
ASSIGN_CONST(task->pid, leader->pid) is self-documenting and clear.

The only problem is that

	#define ASSIGN_CONST(l, r)      (*(typeof(r) *)&(l) = (r))

obviously can't work in this case ;) We need something more clever.

Oleg.