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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>2006-03-28 16:11:12 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-28 18:36:42 -0800
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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 'kernel/signal.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/signal.c2
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)