From: Pavel Emelyanov It seems to me that it was a mistake marking this function as deprecated and scheduling it for removal, rather than resolutely removing it after the last caller's death. Anyway - better late, then never. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 18 ------------------ include/linux/pid.h | 2 +- include/linux/sched.h | 6 ------ 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 25 deletions(-) diff -puN Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt~pidns-remove-find_task_by_pid-unused-for-a-long-time Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt~pidns-remove-find_task_by_pid-unused-for-a-long-time +++ a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -138,24 +138,6 @@ Who: Kay Sievers --------------------------- -What: find_task_by_pid -When: 2.6.26 -Why: With pid namespaces, calling this funciton will return the - wrong task when called from inside a namespace. - - The best way to save a task pid and find a task by this - pid later, is to find this task's struct pid pointer (or get - it directly from the task) and call pid_task() later. - - If someone really needs to get a task by its pid_t, then - he most likely needs the find_task_by_vpid() to get the - task from the same namespace as the current task is in, but - this may be not so in general. - -Who: Pavel Emelyanov - ---------------------------- - What: ACPI procfs interface When: July 2008 Why: ACPI sysfs conversion should be finished by January 2008. diff -puN include/linux/pid.h~pidns-remove-find_task_by_pid-unused-for-a-long-time include/linux/pid.h --- a/include/linux/pid.h~pidns-remove-find_task_by_pid-unused-for-a-long-time +++ a/include/linux/pid.h @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ extern struct pid_namespace init_pid_ns; * find_pid_ns() finds the pid in the namespace specified * find_vpid() finr the pid by its virtual id, i.e. in the current namespace * - * see also find_task_by_pid() set in include/linux/sched.h + * see also find_task_by_vpid() set in include/linux/sched.h */ extern struct pid *find_pid_ns(int nr, struct pid_namespace *ns); extern struct pid *find_vpid(int nr); diff -puN include/linux/sched.h~pidns-remove-find_task_by_pid-unused-for-a-long-time include/linux/sched.h --- a/include/linux/sched.h~pidns-remove-find_task_by_pid-unused-for-a-long-time +++ a/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1689,8 +1689,6 @@ extern struct pid_namespace init_pid_ns; * finds a task by its pid in the specified namespace * find_task_by_vpid(): * finds a task by its virtual pid - * find_task_by_pid(): - * finds a task by its global pid * * see also find_vpid() etc in include/linux/pid.h */ @@ -1698,10 +1696,6 @@ extern struct pid_namespace init_pid_ns; extern struct task_struct *find_task_by_pid_type_ns(int type, int pid, struct pid_namespace *ns); -static inline struct task_struct *__deprecated find_task_by_pid(pid_t nr) -{ - return find_task_by_pid_type_ns(PIDTYPE_PID, nr, &init_pid_ns); -} extern struct task_struct *find_task_by_vpid(pid_t nr); extern struct task_struct *find_task_by_pid_ns(pid_t nr, struct pid_namespace *ns); _