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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2006-01-08 01:01:37 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-01-08 20:13:40 -0800 |
| commit | e56d090310d7625ecb43a1eeebd479f04affb48b (patch) | |
| tree | 2f479215dff4a2d8f3a9ed85200a5bc4f51534be /fs/exec.c | |
| parent | 4369ef3c3e9d3bd9b879580678778f558d481e90 (diff) | |
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[PATCH] RCU signal handling
RCU tasklist_lock and RCU signal handling: send signals RCU-read-locked
instead of tasklist_lock read-locked. This is a scalability improvement on
SMP and a preemption-latency improvement under PREEMPT_RCU.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: 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 'fs/exec.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/exec.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ no_thread_group: spin_lock(&oldsighand->siglock); spin_lock(&newsighand->siglock); - current->sighand = newsighand; + rcu_assign_pointer(current->sighand, newsighand); recalc_sigpending(); spin_unlock(&newsighand->siglock); @@ -768,7 +768,7 @@ no_thread_group: write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); if (atomic_dec_and_test(&oldsighand->count)) - kmem_cache_free(sighand_cachep, oldsighand); + sighand_free(oldsighand); } BUG_ON(!thread_group_leader(current)); |