sched: thread_group_cputime: Simplify, document the "alive" check

thread_group_cputime() looks as if it is rcu-safe, but in fact this
was wrong until ea6d290c which pins task->signal to task_struct.
It checks ->sighand != NULL under rcu, but this can't help if ->signal
can go away. Fortunately the caller either holds ->siglock, or it is
fastpath_timer_check() which uses current and checks exit_state == 0.

- Since ea6d290c commit tsk->signal is stable, we can read it first
  and avoid the initialization from INIT_CPUTIME.

- Even if tsk->signal is always valid, we still have to check it
  is safe to use next_thread() under rcu_read_lock(). Currently
  the code checks ->sighand != NULL, change it to use pid_alive()
  which is commonly used to ensure the task wasn't unhashed before
  we take rcu_read_lock().

  Add the comment to explain this check.

- Change the main loop to use the while_each_thread() helper.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100610230956.GA25921@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
index 9829646d399c5bf0304aa863f78f6f43ae1e4d5e..bf2a6502860ab56a4329edbdeda42c35f978706f 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -232,31 +232,24 @@ static int cpu_clock_sample(const clockid_t which_clock, struct task_struct *p,
 
 void thread_group_cputime(struct task_struct *tsk, struct task_cputime *times)
 {
-       struct sighand_struct *sighand;
-       struct signal_struct *sig;
+       struct signal_struct *sig = tsk->signal;
        struct task_struct *t;
 
-       *times = INIT_CPUTIME;
+       times->utime = sig->utime;
+       times->stime = sig->stime;
+       times->sum_exec_runtime = sig->sum_sched_runtime;
 
        rcu_read_lock();
-       sighand = rcu_dereference(tsk->sighand);
-       if (!sighand)
+       /* make sure we can trust tsk->thread_group list */
+       if (!likely(pid_alive(tsk)))
                goto out;
 
-       sig = tsk->signal;
-
        t = tsk;
        do {
                times->utime = cputime_add(times->utime, t->utime);
                times->stime = cputime_add(times->stime, t->stime);
                times->sum_exec_runtime += t->se.sum_exec_runtime;
-
-               t = next_thread(t);
-       } while (t != tsk);
-
-       times->utime = cputime_add(times->utime, sig->utime);
-       times->stime = cputime_add(times->stime, sig->stime);
-       times->sum_exec_runtime += sig->sum_sched_runtime;
+       } while_each_thread(tsk, t);
 out:
        rcu_read_unlock();
 }