[PATCH 5/7] pid: rewrite task helper function is_global_init() avoiding task->pid

[Richard Guy Briggs]

On 14/02/20, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 01/23, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> >
> >  static inline int is_global_init(struct task_struct *tsk)
> >  {
> > -	return tsk->pid == 1;
> > +	return task_pid_nr(tsk) == 1;
> >  }
> 
> ACK, but we need to fix it.
> 
> With or without this change is_global_init() actually means
> is-the-main-thread-of-global-init.
> 
> This is not what the callers actually want. Just look at
> oom_unkillable_task(). Suppose that p is the sub-thread of
> /sbin/init, if we kill this thread we kill the whole process.
> 
> The same of other callers. is_global_init() should return T
> if this task is the part of init's thread group.

Good.  Updated in my tree.

> Oleg.

- RGB

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