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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>2006-03-29 04:11:12 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-29 06:36:42 +0400
commitaa1757f90bea3f598b6e5d04d922a6a60200f1da (patch)
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parent1f09f9749cdde4e69f95d62d96d2e03f50b3353c (diff)
downloadlinux-aa1757f90bea3f598b6e5d04d922a6a60200f1da.tar.xz
[PATCH] convert sighand_cache to use SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU
This patch borrows a clever Hugh's 'struct anon_vma' trick. Without tasklist_lock held we can't trust task->sighand until we locked it and re-checked that it is still the same. But this means we don't need to defer 'kmem_cache_free(sighand)'. We can return the memory to slab immediately, all we need is to be sure that sighand->siglock can't dissapear inside rcu protected section. To do so we need to initialize ->siglock inside ctor function, SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU does the rest. 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>
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