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linux/arch/mips/sgi-ip32
Cedric Le Goater 9ec52099e4 [PATCH] replace cad_pid by a struct pid
There are a few places in the kernel where the init task is signaled.  The
ctrl+alt+del sequence is one them.  It kills a task, usually init, using a
cached pid (cad_pid).

This patch replaces the pid_t by a struct pid to avoid pid wrap around
problem.  The struct pid is initialized at boot time in init() and can be
modified through systctl with

	/proc/sys/kernel/cad_pid

[ I haven't found any distro using it ? ]

It also introduces a small helper routine kill_cad_pid() which is used
where it seemed ok to use cad_pid instead of pid 1.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, build fix]
Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-02 07:57:25 -07:00
..
crime.c [MIPS] IP32: Fix sparse warnings. 2005-11-17 16:23:48 +00:00
ip32-berr.c
ip32-irq.c [MIPS] IP32: Fix wreckage caused by recent SA_* constant replacement. 2006-07-13 21:26:07 +01:00
ip32-memory.c O2 doesn't have _that_ much RAM. 2005-10-29 19:30:37 +01:00
ip32-reset.c [PATCH] replace cad_pid by a struct pid 2006-10-02 07:57:25 -07:00
ip32-setup.c [MIPS] Replace board_timer_setup function pointer by plat_timer_setup. 2006-07-13 21:26:17 +01:00
Makefile [MIPS] Rewrite all the assembler interrupt handlers to C. 2006-04-19 04:14:21 +02:00