Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [PATCH] task: Make task list manipulations RCU safe. | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:42:49 -0700 |
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While we can currently walk through thread groups, process groups, and sessions with just the rcu_read_lock, this opens the door to walking the entire task list.
We already have all of the other RCU guarantees so there is no cost in doing this, this should be enough so that proc can stop taking the tasklist lock during readdir.
prev_task was killed because it has no users, and using it will miss new tasks when doing an rcu traversal.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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fs/exec.c | 2 +- include/linux/sched.h | 3 +-- kernel/exit.c | 2 +- kernel/fork.c | 2 +- 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
51621c1a347edd8935a80fdf4c78840e03be5e03 diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index d961639..c01150e 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct attach_pid(current, PIDTYPE_PID, current->pid); attach_pid(current, PIDTYPE_PGID, current->signal->pgrp); attach_pid(current, PIDTYPE_SID, current->signal->session); - list_add_tail(¤t->tasks, &init_task.tasks); + list_add_tail_rcu(¤t->tasks, &init_task.tasks); current->parent = current->real_parent = leader->real_parent; leader->parent = leader->real_parent = child_reaper; diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 2856f52..e6fde1a 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1187,8 +1187,7 @@ extern void wait_task_inactive(task_t * #define remove_parent(p) list_del_init(&(p)->sibling) #define add_parent(p) list_add_tail(&(p)->sibling,&(p)->parent->children) -#define next_task(p) list_entry((p)->tasks.next, struct task_struct, tasks) -#define prev_task(p) list_entry((p)->tasks.prev, struct task_struct, tasks) +#define next_task(p) list_entry(rcu_dereference((p)->tasks.next), struct task_struct, tasks) #define for_each_process(p) \ for (p = &init_task ; (p = next_task(p)) != &init_task ; ) diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 806a667..47add40 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static void __unhash_process(struct task detach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PGID); detach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_SID); - list_del_init(&p->tasks); + list_del_rcu(&p->tasks); __get_cpu_var(process_counts)--; } diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index d0eebc2..e7eef2e 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1210,7 +1210,7 @@ static task_t *copy_process(unsigned lon attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PGID, process_group(p)); attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_SID, p->signal->session); - list_add_tail(&p->tasks, &init_task.tasks); + list_add_tail_rcu(&p->tasks, &init_task.tasks); __get_cpu_var(process_counts)++; } attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_TGID, p->tgid); -- 1.2.2.g709a-dirty - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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