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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2006-06-26 00:25:48 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-26 09:58:24 -0700
commit48e6484d49020dba3578ad117b461e8a391e8f0f (patch)
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parent662795deb854b31501e0ffb42b7f0cce802c134a (diff)
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[PATCH] proc: Rewrite the proc dentry flush on exit optimization
To keep the dcache from filling up with dead /proc entries we flush them on process exit. However over the years that code has gotten hairy with a dentry_pointer and a lock in task_struct and misdocumented as a correctness feature. I have rewritten this code to look and see if we have a corresponding entry in the dcache and if so flush it on process exit. This removes the extra fields in the task_struct and allows me to trivially handle the case of a /proc/<tgid>/task/<pid> entry as well as the current /proc/<pid> entries. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c7
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c3
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index e76bd02e930e..304ef637be6c 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -137,12 +137,8 @@ void release_task(struct task_struct * p)
{
int zap_leader;
task_t *leader;
- struct dentry *proc_dentry;
-
repeat:
atomic_dec(&p->user->processes);
- spin_lock(&p->proc_lock);
- proc_dentry = proc_pid_unhash(p);
write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
ptrace_unlink(p);
BUG_ON(!list_empty(&p->ptrace_list) || !list_empty(&p->ptrace_children));
@@ -171,8 +167,7 @@ repeat:
sched_exit(p);
write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
- spin_unlock(&p->proc_lock);
- proc_pid_flush(proc_dentry);
+ proc_flush_task(p);
release_thread(p);
call_rcu(&p->rcu, delayed_put_task_struct);
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index dfd10cb370c3..79e91046f36e 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -993,13 +993,10 @@ static task_t *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
if (put_user(p->pid, parent_tidptr))
goto bad_fork_cleanup;
- p->proc_dentry = NULL;
-
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->children);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->sibling);
p->vfork_done = NULL;
spin_lock_init(&p->alloc_lock);
- spin_lock_init(&p->proc_lock);
clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_SIGPENDING);
init_sigpending(&p->pending);