[PATCH] do_acct_process: don't take tty_mutex

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Mon Oct 23 2006 - 09:57:16 EST


Depends on
tty-signal-tty-locking.patch

No need to take the global tty_mutex, signal->tty->driver can't go away
while we are holding ->siglock.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

--- rc2-mm2/kernel/acct.c~ 2006-10-22 19:28:17.000000000 +0400
+++ rc2-mm2/kernel/acct.c 2006-10-23 17:09:12.000000000 +0400
@@ -484,12 +484,9 @@ static void do_acct_process(struct file
ac.ac_ppid = current->parent->tgid;
#endif

- mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
- tty = get_current_tty();
- ac.ac_tty = tty ? old_encode_dev(tty_devnum(tty)) : 0;
- mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
-
spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
+ tty = current->signal->tty;
+ ac.ac_tty = tty ? old_encode_dev(tty_devnum(tty)) : 0;
ac.ac_utime = encode_comp_t(jiffies_to_AHZ(cputime_to_jiffies(pacct->ac_utime)));
ac.ac_stime = encode_comp_t(jiffies_to_AHZ(cputime_to_jiffies(pacct->ac_stime)));
ac.ac_flag = pacct->ac_flag;

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