[PATCH] convert sighand_cache to use SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU
This patch borrows a clever Hugh's 'struct anon_vma' trick. Without tasklist_lock held we can't trust task->sighand until we locked it and re-checked that it is still the same. But this means we don't need to defer 'kmem_cache_free(sighand)'. We can return the memory to slab immediately, all we need is to be sure that sighand->siglock can't dissapear inside rcu protected section. To do so we need to initialize ->siglock inside ctor function, SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU does the rest. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@@ -768,7 +768,6 @@ no_thread_group:
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/*
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* Move our state over to newsighand and switch it in.
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*/
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spin_lock_init(&newsighand->siglock);
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atomic_set(&newsighand->count, 1);
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memcpy(newsighand->action, oldsighand->action,
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sizeof(newsighand->action));
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@@ -785,7 +784,7 @@ no_thread_group:
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write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
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if (atomic_dec_and_test(&oldsighand->count))
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sighand_free(oldsighand);
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kmem_cache_free(sighand_cachep, oldsighand);
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}
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BUG_ON(!thread_group_leader(current));
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