From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 09:18:54 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] proc: drop tasklist lock in task_state() X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b0fa9db6abdb2875a6d3069ddc6a2846a73fa5cd;p=linux-beck.git [PATCH] proc: drop tasklist lock in task_state() task_state() needs tasklist_lock to protect ->parent/->real_parent. However task->parent points to nowhere only when the actions below happen in order 1) release_task(task) 2) release_task(task->parent) 3) a grace period passed But 3) implies that the memory ops from 1) should be finished, so pid_alive() can't be true in such a case. Otherwise, we don't care if ->parent/->real_parent changes under us. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/fs/proc/array.c b/fs/proc/array.c index 35bd39dac247..25e917fb4739 100644 --- a/fs/proc/array.c +++ b/fs/proc/array.c @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ static inline char * task_state(struct task_struct *p, char *buffer) int g; struct fdtable *fdt = NULL; - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_lock(); buffer += sprintf(buffer, "State:\t%s\n" "SleepAVG:\t%lu%%\n" @@ -174,14 +174,13 @@ static inline char * task_state(struct task_struct *p, char *buffer) "Gid:\t%d\t%d\t%d\t%d\n", get_task_state(p), (p->sleep_avg/1024)*100/(1020000000/1024), - p->tgid, - p->pid, pid_alive(p) ? p->group_leader->real_parent->tgid : 0, - pid_alive(p) && p->ptrace ? p->parent->pid : 0, + p->tgid, p->pid, + pid_alive(p) ? rcu_dereference(p->real_parent)->tgid : 0, + pid_alive(p) && p->ptrace ? rcu_dereference(p->parent)->pid : 0, p->uid, p->euid, p->suid, p->fsuid, p->gid, p->egid, p->sgid, p->fsgid); - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + task_lock(p); - rcu_read_lock(); if (p->files) fdt = files_fdtable(p->files); buffer += sprintf(buffer,