[PATCH] sys_times: don't take tasklist_lock
sys_times: don't take tasklist_lock
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 84371fd..7ef7f60 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1206,7 +1206,7 @@
struct task_struct *t;
cputime_t utime, stime, cutime, cstime;
- read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+ spin_lock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
utime = tsk->signal->utime;
stime = tsk->signal->stime;
t = tsk;
@@ -1216,20 +1216,9 @@
t = next_thread(t);
} while (t != tsk);
- /*
- * While we have tasklist_lock read-locked, no dying thread
- * can be updating current->signal->[us]time. Instead,
- * we got their counts included in the live thread loop.
- * However, another thread can come in right now and
- * do a wait call that updates current->signal->c[us]time.
- * To make sure we always see that pair updated atomically,
- * we take the siglock around fetching them.
- */
- spin_lock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
cutime = tsk->signal->cutime;
cstime = tsk->signal->cstime;
spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
- read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
tmp.tms_utime = cputime_to_clock_t(utime);
tmp.tms_stime = cputime_to_clock_t(stime);