[PATCH] proc: Rewrite the proc dentry flush on exit optimization
To keep the dcache from filling up with dead /proc entries we flush them on
process exit. However over the years that code has gotten hairy with a
dentry_pointer and a lock in task_struct and misdocumented as a correctness
feature.
I have rewritten this code to look and see if we have a corresponding entry in
the dcache and if so flush it on process exit. This removes the extra fields
in the task_struct and allows me to trivially handle the case of a
/proc/<tgid>/task/<pid> entry as well as the current /proc/<pid> entries.
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/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index e76bd02..304ef63 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -137,12 +137,8 @@
{
int zap_leader;
task_t *leader;
- struct dentry *proc_dentry;
-
repeat:
atomic_dec(&p->user->processes);
- spin_lock(&p->proc_lock);
- proc_dentry = proc_pid_unhash(p);
write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
ptrace_unlink(p);
BUG_ON(!list_empty(&p->ptrace_list) || !list_empty(&p->ptrace_children));
@@ -171,8 +167,7 @@
sched_exit(p);
write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
- spin_unlock(&p->proc_lock);
- proc_pid_flush(proc_dentry);
+ proc_flush_task(p);
release_thread(p);
call_rcu(&p->rcu, delayed_put_task_struct);