exit: Remove profile_handoff_task

All profile_handoff_task does is notify the task_free_notifier chain.
The helpers task_handoff_register and task_handoff_unregister are used
to add and delete entries from that chain and are never called.

So remove the dead code and make it much easier to read and reason
about __put_task_struct.

Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87fspyw6m0.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

Author: ebiederm

include/linux/profile.h

@@ -61,14 +61,6 @@ static inline void profile_hit(int type, void *ip)
 struct task_struct;
 struct mm_struct;
 
-/* task is dead, free task struct ? Returns 1 if
- * the task was taken, 0 if the task should be freed.
- */
-int profile_handoff_task(struct task_struct * task);
-
-int task_handoff_register(struct notifier_block * n);
-int task_handoff_unregister(struct notifier_block * n);
-
 #else
 
 #define prof_on 0
@@ -93,17 +85,6 @@ static inline void profile_hit(int type, void *ip)
 	return;
 }
 
-static inline int task_handoff_register(struct notifier_block * n)
-{
-	return -ENOSYS;
-}
-
-static inline int task_handoff_unregister(struct notifier_block * n)
-{
-	return -ENOSYS;
-}
-
-#define profile_handoff_task(a) (0)
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_PROFILING */
 

kernel/fork.c

@@ -754,9 +754,7 @@ void __put_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk)
 	delayacct_tsk_free(tsk);
 	put_signal_struct(tsk->signal);
 	sched_core_free(tsk);
-
-	if (!profile_handoff_task(tsk))
-		free_task(tsk);
+	free_task(tsk);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__put_task_struct);
 

kernel/profile.c

@@ -133,29 +133,6 @@ int __ref profile_init(void)
 	return -ENOMEM;
 }
 
-/* Profile event notifications */
-
-static ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(task_free_notifier);
-
-int profile_handoff_task(struct task_struct *task)
-{
-	int ret;
-	ret = atomic_notifier_call_chain(&task_free_notifier, 0, task);
-	return (ret == NOTIFY_OK) ? 1 : 0;
-}
-
-int task_handoff_register(struct notifier_block *n)
-{
-	return atomic_notifier_chain_register(&task_free_notifier, n);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(task_handoff_register);
-
-int task_handoff_unregister(struct notifier_block *n)
-{
-	return atomic_notifier_chain_unregister(&task_free_notifier, n);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(task_handoff_unregister);
-
 #if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_PROC_FS)
 /*
  * Each cpu has a pair of open-addressed hashtables for pending