signals: kill the awful task_rq_unlock_wait() hack
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Wed, 26 May 2010 21:43:18 +0000 (14:43 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 27 May 2010 16:12:46 +0000 (09:12 -0700)
Now that task->signal can't go away we can revert the horrible hack added
by ad474caca3e2a0550b7ce0706527ad5ab389a4d4 ("fix for
account_group_exec_runtime(), make sure ->signal can't be freed under
rq->lock").

And we can do more cleanups sched_stats.h/posix-cpu-timers.c later.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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>
include/linux/sched.h
kernel/exit.c
kernel/sched.c

index 32e309d..2d1e1a1 100644 (file)
@@ -268,7 +268,6 @@ extern void init_idle(struct task_struct *idle, int cpu);
 extern void init_idle_bootup_task(struct task_struct *idle);
 
 extern int runqueue_is_locked(int cpu);
-extern void task_rq_unlock_wait(struct task_struct *p);
 
 extern cpumask_var_t nohz_cpu_mask;
 #if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ)
index 356d91f..bbc7906 100644 (file)
@@ -145,11 +145,6 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
        if (sig) {
                flush_sigqueue(&sig->shared_pending);
                taskstats_tgid_free(sig);
-               /*
-                * Make sure ->signal can't go away under rq->lock,
-                * see account_group_exec_runtime().
-                */
-               task_rq_unlock_wait(tsk);
                tty_kref_put(tty);
        }
 }
index 054a601..15b93f6 100644 (file)
@@ -969,14 +969,6 @@ static struct rq *task_rq_lock(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long *flags)
        }
 }
 
-void task_rq_unlock_wait(struct task_struct *p)
-{
-       struct rq *rq = task_rq(p);
-
-       smp_mb(); /* spin-unlock-wait is not a full memory barrier */
-       raw_spin_unlock_wait(&rq->lock);
-}
-
 static void __task_rq_unlock(struct rq *rq)
        __releases(rq->lock)
 {