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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2010-02-22 17:04:50 -0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-02-25 10:34:26 +0100 |
| commit | d11c563dd20ff35da5652c3e1c989d9e10e1d6d0 (patch) | |
| tree | b189f50de7a01d7603935d4da7e755d764dfe67e /kernel/exit.c | |
| parent | a898def29e4119bc01ebe7ca97423181f4c0ea2d (diff) | |
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sched: Use lockdep-based checking on rcu_dereference()
Update the rcu_dereference() usages to take advantage of the new
lockdep-based checking.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-6-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ -v2: fix allmodconfig missing symbol export build failure on x86 ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/exit.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 546774a31a66..45ed043b8bf5 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -85,7 +85,9 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk) BUG_ON(!sig); BUG_ON(!atomic_read(&sig->count)); - sighand = rcu_dereference(tsk->sighand); + sighand = rcu_dereference_check(tsk->sighand, + rcu_read_lock_held() || + lockdep_is_held(&tasklist_lock)); spin_lock(&sighand->siglock); posix_cpu_timers_exit(tsk); @@ -170,8 +172,10 @@ void release_task(struct task_struct * p) repeat: tracehook_prepare_release_task(p); /* don't need to get the RCU readlock here - the process is dead and - * can't be modifying its own credentials */ + * can't be modifying its own credentials. But shut RCU-lockdep up */ + rcu_read_lock(); atomic_dec(&__task_cred(p)->user->processes); + rcu_read_unlock(); proc_flush_task(p); @@ -473,9 +477,11 @@ static void close_files(struct files_struct * files) /* * It is safe to dereference the fd table without RCU or * ->file_lock because this is the last reference to the - * files structure. + * files structure. But use RCU to shut RCU-lockdep up. */ + rcu_read_lock(); fdt = files_fdtable(files); + rcu_read_unlock(); for (;;) { unsigned long set; i = j * __NFDBITS; @@ -521,10 +527,12 @@ void put_files_struct(struct files_struct *files) * at the end of the RCU grace period. Otherwise, * you can free files immediately. */ + rcu_read_lock(); fdt = files_fdtable(files); if (fdt != &files->fdtab) kmem_cache_free(files_cachep, files); free_fdtable(fdt); + rcu_read_unlock(); } } |