From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:51 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] proc: Remove tasklist_lock from proc_pid_readdir
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=454cc105ef690f2a0ba7c6b194d55666b4e918ce;p=linux-beck.git

[PATCH] proc: Remove tasklist_lock from proc_pid_readdir

We don't need the tasklist_lock to safely iterate through processes
anymore.

This depends on my previous to task patches that make get_task_struct rcu
safe, and that make next_task() rcu safe.  I haven't gotten
first_tid/next_tid yet only because next_thread is missing an
rcu_dereference.

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>
---

diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 2236f7d3878e..cc578a300a2b 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -2043,7 +2043,7 @@ out:
 static struct task_struct *first_tgid(int tgid, int nr)
 {
 	struct task_struct *pos = NULL;
-	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	if (tgid && nr) {
 		pos = find_task_by_pid(tgid);
 		if (pos && !thread_group_leader(pos))
@@ -2069,7 +2069,7 @@ static struct task_struct *first_tgid(int tgid, int nr)
 	}
 	pos = NULL;
 done:
-	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 	return pos;
 }
 
@@ -2082,7 +2082,7 @@ done:
 static struct task_struct *next_tgid(struct task_struct *start)
 {
 	struct task_struct *pos;
-	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	pos = start;
 	if (pid_alive(start))
 		pos = next_task(start);
@@ -2092,7 +2092,7 @@ static struct task_struct *next_tgid(struct task_struct *start)
 	}
 	pos = NULL;
 done:
-	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 	put_task_struct(start);
 	return pos;
 }