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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>2006-03-29 02:11:12 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-29 04:36:42 +0200
commitaa1757f90bea3f598b6e5d04d922a6a60200f1da (patch)
tree4f8f3804b2595031d0b84de7086dc28375290f0d /include
parent[PATCH] release_task: replace open-coded ptrace_unlink() (diff)
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[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sched.h8
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index ddc0df7f8bf5..bbcfc873bd98 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -355,16 +355,8 @@ struct sighand_struct {
atomic_t count;
struct k_sigaction action[_NSIG];
spinlock_t siglock;
- struct rcu_head rcu;
};
-extern void sighand_free_cb(struct rcu_head *rhp);
-
-static inline void sighand_free(struct sighand_struct *sp)
-{
- call_rcu(&sp->rcu, sighand_free_cb);
-}
-
/*
* NOTE! "signal_struct" does not have it's own
* locking, because a shared signal_struct always