[PATCH 04/59] CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the PowerPC arch

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Aug 28 09:45:33 EST 2008


On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 14:46 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
> the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.
> 
> Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id().
> 
> Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id().  In some places it makes more
> sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be
> addressed by later patches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris at namei.org>
> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue at us.ibm.com>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org
> ---

Ack.

Ben.





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