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The old _do_fork() helper doesn't follow naming conventions of in-kernel
helpers for syscalls. The process creation cleanup in [1] didn't change the
name to something more reasonable mainly because _do_fork() was used in quite a
few places. So sending this as a separate series seemed the better strategy.
This commit does two things:
1. renames _do_fork() to kernel_clone() but keeps _do_fork() as a simple static
inline wrapper around kernel_clone().
2. Changes the return type from long to pid_t. This aligns kernel_thread() and
kernel_clone(). Also, the return value from kernel_clone that is surfaced in
fork(), vfork(), clone(), and clone3() is taken from pid_vrn() which returns
a pid_t too.
Follow-up patches will switch each caller of _do_fork() and each place where it
is referenced over to kernel_clone(). After all these changes are done, we can
remove _do_fork() completely and will only be left with kernel_clone().
[1]:
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| acpi | ||
| asm-generic | ||
| clocksource | ||
| crypto | ||
| drm | ||
| dt-bindings | ||
| keys | ||
| kunit | ||
| kvm | ||
| linux | ||
| math-emu | ||
| media | ||
| memory | ||
| misc | ||
| net | ||
| pcmcia | ||
| ras | ||
| rdma | ||
| scsi | ||
| soc | ||
| sound | ||
| target | ||
| trace | ||
| uapi | ||
| vdso | ||
| video | ||
| xen | ||