From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:26:39 +0100 From: Oleg Nesterov Subject: Re: [patch 4/4] taskstats: Export "cdata_acct" with taskstats Message-ID: <20101125132639.GB25836@redhat.com> References: <20101119201108.269346583@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20101119201144.871656307@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101119201144.871656307@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Archive: List-Post: To: Michael Holzheu Cc: Shailabh Nagar , Andrew Morton , Peter Zijlstra , John stultz , Thomas Gleixner , Balbir Singh , Martin Schwidefsky , Heiko Carstens , Roland McGrath , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11/19, Michael Holzheu wrote: > > From: Michael Holzheu > > With this patch the (full) cumulative CPU time is added to "struct taskstats". > The CPU time is only returned for the thread group leader. > > ... > > + if (tsk->tgid == tsk->pid thread_group_leader() ? > && lock_task_sighand(tsk, &flags)) { Do you really need ->siglock? Starting from 2.6.35 it is always safe to access ->signal. Oleg.