Re: [PATCH 1/4] posix-timers: move global timer id management tosignal_struct v2

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Wed Aug 31 2011 - 04:54:07 EST


Le lundi 29 aoÃt 2011 Ã 16:39 -0700, Andi Kleen a Ãcrit :
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Move the global posix timer ids IDR to signal_struct. This removes
> a minor global scalability bottleneck and also allows to finally limit
> the number of process timers in a sane way (see next patch)
>
> I put it into signal_struct following the other posix timer per process
> structures.
>
> v2: Now with locking again (thanks Eric)
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/init_task.h | 3 +++
> include/linux/sched.h | 4 ++++
> kernel/fork.c | 2 ++
> kernel/posix-timers.c | 23 ++++++++++++-----------
> 4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h
> index d14e058..564248d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/init_task.h
> +++ b/include/linux/init_task.h
> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
> #include <linux/pid_namespace.h>
> #include <linux/user_namespace.h>
> #include <linux/securebits.h>
> +#include <linux/idr.h>
> #include <net/net_namespace.h>
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> @@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ extern struct fs_struct init_fs;
> .list = LIST_HEAD_INIT(sig.shared_pending.list), \
> .signal = {{0}}}, \
> .posix_timers = LIST_HEAD_INIT(sig.posix_timers), \
> + .idr_lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(idr_lock), \
> .cpu_timers = INIT_CPU_TIMERS(sig.cpu_timers), \
> .rlim = INIT_RLIMITS, \
> .cputimer = { \
> @@ -46,6 +48,7 @@ extern struct fs_struct init_fs;
> }, \
> .cred_guard_mutex = \
> __MUTEX_INITIALIZER(sig.cred_guard_mutex), \
> + .posix_timers_id = IDR_INIT(posix_timer_id), \
> INIT_THREADGROUP_FORK_LOCK(sig) \
> }
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
> index 4ac2c05..87fa2fc 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ struct sched_param {
> #include <linux/errno.h>
> #include <linux/nodemask.h>
> #include <linux/mm_types.h>
> +#include <linux/idr.h>
>
> #include <asm/system.h>
> #include <asm/page.h>
> @@ -652,6 +653,9 @@ struct signal_struct {
> struct mutex cred_guard_mutex; /* guard against foreign influences on
> * credential calculations
> * (notably. ptrace) */
> +
> + struct idr posix_timers_id;
> + spinlock_t idr_lock; /* Protect posix_timers_id writes */
> };
>
> /* Context switch must be unlocked if interrupts are to be enabled */
> diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> index 8e6b6f4..1054cfd 100644
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -943,6 +943,8 @@ static void posix_cpu_timers_init_group(struct signal_struct *sig)
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sig->cpu_timers[0]);
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sig->cpu_timers[1]);
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sig->cpu_timers[2]);
> +
> + idr_init(&sig->posix_timers_id);

I might miss something, but dont you also need to

spin_lock_init(&sig->idr_lock);

Maybe you should try with LOCKDEP on ;)



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