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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/exec.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/exec.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 4d38ad0b70d6..3234a0c32d54 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -678,6 +678,18 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct *tsk) while (leader->exit_state != EXIT_ZOMBIE) yield(); + /* + * The only record we have of the real-time age of a + * process, regardless of execs it's done, is start_time. + * All the past CPU time is accumulated in signal_struct + * from sister threads now dead. But in this non-leader + * exec, nothing survives from the original leader thread, + * whose birth marks the true age of this process now. + * When we take on its identity by switching to its PID, we + * also take its birthdate (always earlier than our own). + */ + current->start_time = leader->start_time; + spin_lock(&leader->proc_lock); spin_lock(¤t->proc_lock); proc_dentry1 = proc_pid_unhash(current); |