attach_pid() with struct pid parameter

attach_pid() currently takes a pid_t and then uses find_pid() to find the
corresponding struct pid.  Sometimes we already have the struct pid.  We can
then skip find_pid() if attach_pid() were to take a struct pid parameter.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[email protected]>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/pid.h b/include/linux/pid.h
index 2ac27f9997dd..33d343880d89 100644
--- a/include/linux/pid.h
+++ b/include/linux/pid.h
@@ -76,8 +76,7 @@ extern struct pid *get_task_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type type);
  * write-held.
  */
 extern int FASTCALL(attach_pid(struct task_struct *task,
-				enum pid_type type, int nr));
-
+				enum pid_type type, struct pid *pid));
 extern void FASTCALL(detach_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type));
 extern void FASTCALL(transfer_pid(struct task_struct *old,
 				  struct task_struct *new, enum pid_type));