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| author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> | 2006-03-29 02:11:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-29 04:36:42 +0200 |
| commit | aa1757f90bea3f598b6e5d04d922a6a60200f1da (patch) | |
| tree | 4f8f3804b2595031d0b84de7086dc28375290f0d /kernel/signal.c | |
| 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 '')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/signal.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index dc8f91bf9f89..b0b1ca9daa33 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ void __exit_sighand(struct task_struct *tsk) /* Ok, we're done with the signal handlers */ tsk->sighand = NULL; if (atomic_dec_and_test(&sighand->count)) - sighand_free(sighand); + kmem_cache_free(sighand_cachep, sighand); } void exit_sighand(struct task_struct *tsk) |