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authorRavikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>2006-06-22 14:47:26 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-22 15:05:57 -0700
commitde047c1bcd7f7bcfbdc29eb5b439fb332594da3f (patch)
treeff0d52044559971b8d68aaeb00fc7b6a876b3a3d /kernel/sys.c
parentc89681ed7d0e4a61d35bdc12c06c6733b718b2cb (diff)
[PATCH] avoid tasklist_lock at getrusage for multithreaded case too
Avoid taking tasklist_lock for at getrusage for the multithreaded case too. We don't need to take the tasklist lock for thread traversal of a process since Oleg's do-__unhash_process-under-siglock.patch and related work. Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sys.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c56
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 34 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 0b6ec0e7936..fc9ebbbaba0 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1860,23 +1860,20 @@ out:
* fields when reaping, so a sample either gets all the additions of a
* given child after it's reaped, or none so this sample is before reaping.
*
- * tasklist_lock locking optimisation:
- * If we are current and single threaded, we do not need to take the tasklist
- * lock or the siglock. No one else can take our signal_struct away,
- * no one else can reap the children to update signal->c* counters, and
- * no one else can race with the signal-> fields.
- * If we do not take the tasklist_lock, the signal-> fields could be read
- * out of order while another thread was just exiting. So we place a
- * read memory barrier when we avoid the lock. On the writer side,
- * write memory barrier is implied in __exit_signal as __exit_signal releases
- * the siglock spinlock after updating the signal-> fields.
- *
- * We don't really need the siglock when we access the non c* fields
- * of the signal_struct (for RUSAGE_SELF) even in multithreaded
- * case, since we take the tasklist lock for read and the non c* signal->
- * fields are updated only in __exit_signal, which is called with
- * tasklist_lock taken for write, hence these two threads cannot execute
- * concurrently.
+ * Locking:
+ * We need to take the siglock for CHILDEREN, SELF and BOTH
+ * for the cases current multithreaded, non-current single threaded
+ * non-current multithreaded. Thread traversal is now safe with
+ * the siglock held.
+ * Strictly speaking, we donot need to take the siglock if we are current and
+ * single threaded, as no one else can take our signal_struct away, no one
+ * else can reap the children to update signal->c* counters, and no one else
+ * can race with the signal-> fields. If we do not take any lock, the
+ * signal-> fields could be read out of order while another thread was just
+ * exiting. So we should place a read memory barrier when we avoid the lock.
+ * On the writer side, write memory barrier is implied in __exit_signal
+ * as __exit_signal releases the siglock spinlock after updating the signal->
+ * fields. But we don't do this yet to keep things simple.
*
*/
@@ -1885,35 +1882,25 @@ static void k_getrusage(struct task_struct *p, int who, struct rusage *r)
struct task_struct *t;
unsigned long flags;
cputime_t utime, stime;
- int need_lock = 0;
memset((char *) r, 0, sizeof *r);
utime = stime = cputime_zero;
- if (p != current || !thread_group_empty(p))
- need_lock = 1;
-
- if (need_lock) {
- read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
- if (unlikely(!p->signal)) {
- read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
- return;
- }
- } else
- /* See locking comments above */
- smp_rmb();
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ if (!lock_task_sighand(p, &flags)) {
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ return;
+ }
switch (who) {
case RUSAGE_BOTH:
case RUSAGE_CHILDREN:
- spin_lock_irqsave(&p->sighand->siglock, flags);
utime = p->signal->cutime;
stime = p->signal->cstime;
r->ru_nvcsw = p->signal->cnvcsw;
r->ru_nivcsw = p->signal->cnivcsw;
r->ru_minflt = p->signal->cmin_flt;
r->ru_majflt = p->signal->cmaj_flt;
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->sighand->siglock, flags);
if (who == RUSAGE_CHILDREN)
break;
@@ -1941,8 +1928,9 @@ static void k_getrusage(struct task_struct *p, int who, struct rusage *r)
BUG();
}
- if (need_lock)
- read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+ unlock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
cputime_to_timeval(utime, &r->ru_utime);
cputime_to_timeval(stime, &r->ru_stime);
}