user/sven/linux.git/kernel/fork.c, branch v2.6.35.4

mm: make the vma list be doubly linked

2010-08-26T23:45:56Z

commit 297c5eee372478fc32fec5fe8eed711eedb13f3d upstream. It's a really simple list, and several of the users want to go backwards in it to find the previous vma. So rather than have to look up the previous entry with 'find_vma_prev()' or something similar, just make it doubly linked instead. Tested-by: Ian Campbell Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "cpusets: randomize node rotor used in cpuset_mem_spread_node()"

2010-05-30T16:00:03Z

This reverts commit 0ac0c0d0f837c499afd02a802f9cf52d3027fa3b, which caused cross-architecture build problems for all the wrong reasons. IA64 already added its own version of __node_random(), but the fact is, there is nothing architectural about the function, and the original commit was just badly done. Revert it, since no fix is forthcoming. Requested-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

pids: fix fork_idle() to setup ->pids correctly

2010-05-27T16:12:52Z

copy_process(pid => &init_struct_pid) doesn't do attach_pid/etc. It shouldn't, but this means that the idle threads run with the wrong pids copied from the caller's task_struct. In x86 case the caller is either kernel_init() thread or keventd. In particular, this means that after the series of cpu_up/cpu_down an idle thread (which never exits) can run with .pid pointing to nowhere. Change fork_idle() to initialize idle->pids[] correctly. We only set .pid = &init_struct_pid but do not add .node to list, INIT_TASK() does the same for the boot-cpu idle thread (swapper). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Cedric Le Goater Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: Herbert Poetzl Cc: Mathias Krause Acked-by: Roland McGrath Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc: turn signal_struct->count into "int nr_threads"

2010-05-27T16:12:47Z

No functional changes, just s/atomic_t count/int nr_threads/. With the recent changes this counter has a single user, get_nr_threads() And, none of its callers need the really accurate number of threads, not to mention each caller obviously races with fork/exit. It is only used to report this value to the user-space, except first_tid() uses it to avoid the unnecessary while_each_thread() loop in the unlikely case. It is a bit sad we need a word in struct signal_struct for this, perhaps we can change get_nr_threads() to approximate the number of threads using signal->live and kill ->nr_threads later. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Acked-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

check_unshare_flags: kill the bogus CLONE_SIGHAND/sig->count check

2010-05-27T16:12:47Z

check_unshare_flags(CLONE_SIGHAND) adds CLONE_THREAD to *flags_ptr if the task is multithreaded to ensure unshare_thread() will fail. Not only this is a bit strange way to return the error, this is absolutely meaningless. If signal->count > 1 then sighand->count must be also > 1, and unshare_sighand() will fail anyway. In fact, all CLONE_THREAD/SIGHAND/VM checks inside sys_unshare() do not look right. Fortunately this code doesn't really work anyway. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Balbir Singh Acked-by: Roland McGrath Cc: Veaceslav Falico Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

exit: move taskstats_tgid_free() from __exit_signal() to free_signal_struct()

2010-05-27T16:12:46Z

Move taskstats_tgid_free() from __exit_signal() to free_signal_struct(). This way signal->stats never points to nowhere and we can read ->stats lockless. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Veaceslav Falico Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kill the obsolete thread_group_cputime_free() helper

2010-05-27T16:12:46Z

Kill the empty thread_group_cputime_free() helper. It was needed to free the per-cpu data which we no longer have. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Veaceslav Falico Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

signals: make task_struct->signal immutable/refcountable

2010-05-27T16:12:46Z

We have a lot of problems with accessing task_struct->signal, it can "disappear" at any moment. Even current can't use its ->signal safely after exit_notify(). ->siglock helps, but it is not convenient, not always possible, and sometimes it makes sense to use task->signal even after this task has already dead. This patch adds the reference counter, sigcnt, into signal_struct. This reference is owned by task_struct and it is dropped in __put_task_struct(). Perhaps it makes sense to export get/put_signal_struct() later, but currently I don't see the immediate reason. Rename __cleanup_signal() to free_signal_struct() and unexport it. With the previous changes it does nothing except kmem_cache_free(). Change __exit_signal() to not clear/free ->signal, it will be freed when the last reference to any thread in the thread group goes away. Note: - when the last thead exits signal->tty can point to nowhere, see the next patch. - with or without this patch signal_struct->count should go away, or at least it should be "int nr_threads" for fs/proc. This will be addressed later. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Alan Cox Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fork/exit: move tty_kref_put() outside of __cleanup_signal()

2010-05-27T16:12:46Z

tty_kref_put() has two callsites in copy_process() paths, 1. if copy_process() suceeds it is called before we copy signal->tty from parent 2. otherwise it is called from __cleanup_signal() under bad_fork_cleanup_signal: label In both cases tty_kref_put() is not right and unneeded because we don't have the balancing tty_kref_get(). Fortunately, this is harmless because this can only happen without CLONE_THREAD, and in this case signal->tty must be NULL. Remove tty_kref_put() from copy_process() and __cleanup_signal(), and change another caller of __cleanup_signal(), __exit_signal(), to call tty_kref_put() by hand. I hope this change makes sense by itself, but it is also needed to make ->signal refcountable. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Alan Cox Acked-by: Roland McGrath Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

cpusets: randomize node rotor used in cpuset_mem_spread_node()

2010-05-27T16:12:44Z

Some workloads that create a large number of small files tend to assign too many pages to node 0 (multi-node systems). Part of the reason is that the rotor (in cpuset_mem_spread_node()) used to assign nodes starts at node 0 for newly created tasks. This patch changes the rotor to be initialized to a random node number of the cpuset. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix layout] [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Define stub numa_random() for !NUMA configuration] Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Paul Menage Cc: Jack Steiner Cc: Robin Holt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds