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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2010-05-26 14:43:10 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-05-27 09:12:45 -0700
commit9c3391684415c9dca239130d9e433a60a4edf04b (patch)
treea8019b964c625cfeeda0e9d85bafa48991546212 /kernel
parent269b005a28e124a341df4adef2c3661cf7371fcc (diff)
exit: exit_notify() can trust signal->notify_count < 0
signal_struct->count in its current form must die. - it has no reasons to be atomic_t - it looks like a reference counter, but it is not - otoh, we really need to make task->signal refcountable, just look at the extremely ugly task_rq_unlock_wait() called from __exit_signals(). - we should change the lifetime rules for task->signal, it should be pinned to task_struct. We have a lot of code which can be simplified after that. - it is not needed! while the code is correct, any usage of this counter is artificial, except fs/proc uses it correctly to show the number of threads. This series removes the usage of sig->count from exit pathes. This patch: Now that Veaceslav changed copy_signal() to use zalloc(), exit_notify() can just check notify_count < 0 to ensure the execing sub-threads needs the notification from us. No need to do other checks, notify_count != 0 must always mean ->group_exit_task != NULL is waiting for us. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c7
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 019a2843bf95..59a104c673f7 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -856,12 +856,9 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead)
tsk->exit_state = signal == DEATH_REAP ? EXIT_DEAD : EXIT_ZOMBIE;
- /* mt-exec, de_thread() is waiting for us */
- if (thread_group_leader(tsk) &&
- tsk->signal->group_exit_task &&
- tsk->signal->notify_count < 0)
+ /* mt-exec, de_thread() is waiting for group leader */
+ if (unlikely(tsk->signal->notify_count < 0))
wake_up_process(tsk->signal->group_exit_task);
-
write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
tracehook_report_death(tsk, signal, cookie, group_dead);