[PATCH 4/4] coredump: turn core_state->nr_threads into atomic_t

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Sun Jul 06 2008 - 11:20:11 EST


Turn core_state->nr_threads into atomic_t and kill now unneeded
down_write(&mm->mmap_sem) in exit_mm().

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

include/linux/mm_types.h | 2 +-
kernel/exit.c | 5 ++---
fs/exec.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- 26-rc2/include/linux/mm_types.h~4_NR_ATOMIC 2008-06-15 15:26:29.000000000 +0400
+++ 26-rc2/include/linux/mm_types.h 2008-06-16 18:00:08.000000000 +0400
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct {
};

struct core_state {
- int nr_threads;
+ atomic_t nr_threads;
struct completion startup;
};

--- 26-rc2/kernel/exit.c~4_NR_ATOMIC 2008-06-15 15:28:21.000000000 +0400
+++ 26-rc2/kernel/exit.c 2008-07-06 18:10:12.000000000 +0400
@@ -667,10 +667,9 @@ static void exit_mm(struct task_struct *
down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
if (mm->core_state) {
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
- down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
- if (!--mm->core_state->nr_threads)
+
+ if (atomic_dec_and_test(&mm->core_state->nr_threads))
complete(&mm->core_state->startup);
- up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);

wait_for_completion(&mm->core_done);
down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
--- 26-rc2/fs/exec.c~4_NR_ATOMIC 2008-07-06 17:43:14.000000000 +0400
+++ 26-rc2/fs/exec.c 2008-07-06 18:12:33.000000000 +0400
@@ -1586,7 +1586,7 @@ static inline int zap_threads(struct tas
}
rcu_read_unlock();
done:
- core_state->nr_threads = nr;
+ atomic_set(&core_state->nr_threads, nr);
return nr;
}


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