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authorHiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>2009-09-23 15:57:41 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-24 07:21:05 -0700
commit801460d0cf5c5288153b722565773059b0f44348 (patch)
treeff2542903572a546ac59e92f295e9a18e718afa0 /kernel/fork.c
parent2fa4341074cd02fb39aa23410740764948755635 (diff)
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task_struct cleanup: move binfmt field to mm_struct
Because the binfmt is not different between threads in the same process, it can be moved from task_struct to mm_struct. And binfmt moudle is handled per mm_struct instead of task_struct. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c13
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index e49f181ba1ca..266c6af6ef1b 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -518,6 +518,8 @@ void mmput(struct mm_struct *mm)
spin_unlock(&mmlist_lock);
}
put_swap_token(mm);
+ if (mm->binfmt)
+ module_put(mm->binfmt->module);
mmdrop(mm);
}
}
@@ -643,9 +645,14 @@ struct mm_struct *dup_mm(struct task_struct *tsk)
mm->hiwater_rss = get_mm_rss(mm);
mm->hiwater_vm = mm->total_vm;
+ if (mm->binfmt && !try_module_get(mm->binfmt->module))
+ goto free_pt;
+
return mm;
free_pt:
+ /* don't put binfmt in mmput, we haven't got module yet */
+ mm->binfmt = NULL;
mmput(mm);
fail_nomem:
@@ -1037,9 +1044,6 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
if (!try_module_get(task_thread_info(p)->exec_domain->module))
goto bad_fork_cleanup_count;
- if (p->binfmt && !try_module_get(p->binfmt->module))
- goto bad_fork_cleanup_put_domain;
-
p->did_exec = 0;
delayacct_tsk_init(p); /* Must remain after dup_task_struct() */
copy_flags(clone_flags, p);
@@ -1327,9 +1331,6 @@ bad_fork_cleanup_cgroup:
#endif
cgroup_exit(p, cgroup_callbacks_done);
delayacct_tsk_free(p);
- if (p->binfmt)
- module_put(p->binfmt->module);
-bad_fork_cleanup_put_domain:
module_put(task_thread_info(p)->exec_domain->module);
bad_fork_cleanup_count:
atomic_dec(&p->cred->user->processes);