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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>2006-03-28 16:11:21 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-28 18:36:43 -0800
commit7d7185c818925ba5fe90efa75840d0b415032774 (patch)
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[PATCH] sys_times: don't take tasklist_lock
sys_times: don't take tasklist_lock 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 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c13
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 84371fdc660b..7ef7f6054c28 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1206,7 +1206,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_times(struct tms __user * tbuf)
struct task_struct *t;
cputime_t utime, stime, cutime, cstime;
- read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+ spin_lock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
utime = tsk->signal->utime;
stime = tsk->signal->stime;
t = tsk;
@@ -1216,20 +1216,9 @@ asmlinkage long sys_times(struct tms __user * tbuf)
t = next_thread(t);
} while (t != tsk);
- /*
- * While we have tasklist_lock read-locked, no dying thread
- * can be updating current->signal->[us]time. Instead,
- * we got their counts included in the live thread loop.
- * However, another thread can come in right now and
- * do a wait call that updates current->signal->c[us]time.
- * To make sure we always see that pair updated atomically,
- * we take the siglock around fetching them.
- */
- spin_lock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
cutime = tsk->signal->cutime;
cstime = tsk->signal->cstime;
spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
- read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
tmp.tms_utime = cputime_to_clock_t(utime);
tmp.tms_stime = cputime_to_clock_t(stime);