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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2006-01-08 01:01:37 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-08 20:13:40 -0800
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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>
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 6f46c94cc29e..92733091154c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -176,6 +176,13 @@ static unsigned int task_timeslice(task_t *p)
#define task_hot(p, now, sd) ((long long) ((now) - (p)->last_ran) \
< (long long) (sd)->cache_hot_time)
+void __put_task_struct_cb(struct rcu_head *rhp)
+{
+ __put_task_struct(container_of(rhp, struct task_struct, rcu));
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__put_task_struct_cb);
+
/*
* These are the runqueue data structures:
*/