Re: [PATCH 2/2] posix-cpu-timers: remove tasklist_lock where we can

From: Richard Kennedy
Date: Fri Jun 12 2009 - 03:48:36 EST


Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> tasklist_lock is not needed to protect find_task_by_vpid() nor
> thread_group_leader() nor same_thread_group() , use rcu_read_lock() instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
> index bece7c0..1d9cdf3 100644
> --- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
> +++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
> @@ -37,13 +37,13 @@ static int check_clock(const clockid_t which_clock)
> if (pid == 0)
> return 0;
>
> - read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
> + rcu_read_lock();
> p = find_task_by_vpid(pid);
> if (!p || !(CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(which_clock) ?
> same_thread_group(p, current) : thread_group_leader(p))) {
> error = -EINVAL;
> }
> - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> + rcu_read_lock();
>
Did you really intend to replace an unlock with a lock?

regards
Richard
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