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[PATCH] taskstats: don't use tasklist_lock
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:38:54 +0000 (10:38 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:30:54 +0000 (11:30 -0700)
commita98b6094261c0112e9c455c96995972181bff049
tree01a15d79e331730de5a255a7109cf1318b95f6ac
parentb8534d7bd89df0cd41cd47bcd6733a05ea9a691a
[PATCH] taskstats: don't use tasklist_lock

Remove tasklist_lock from taskstats.c. find_task_by_pid() is rcu-safe.
->siglock allows us to traverse subthread without tasklist.

Q: delay accounting looks wrong to me.  If sub-thread has already called
taskstats_exit_send() but didn't call release_task(self) yet it will be
accounted twice.  The window is big.  No?

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
kernel/taskstats.c