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* [PATCH] do_task_stat: don't take tty_mutex
@ 2006-10-22 15:57 Oleg Nesterov
  2006-10-23 11:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Oleg Nesterov @ 2006-10-22 15:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: Peter Zijlstra, Alan Cox, linux-kernel

Depends on
	tty-signal-tty-locking.patch

->signal->tty is protected by ->siglock, no need to take the global tty_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>

--- rc2-mm2/fs/proc/array.c~	2006-10-22 19:28:17.000000000 +0400
+++ rc2-mm2/fs/proc/array.c	2006-10-22 19:45:52.000000000 +0400
@@ -346,20 +346,13 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct task_stru
 	sigemptyset(&sigcatch);
 	cutime = cstime = utime = stime = cputime_zero;
 
-	mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	if (lock_task_sighand(task, &flags)) {
 		struct signal_struct *sig = task->signal;
-		struct tty_struct *tty = sig->tty;
 
-		if (tty) {
-			/*
-			 * sig->tty is not stable, but tty_mutex
-			 * protects us from release_dev(tty)
-			 */
-			barrier();
-			tty_pgrp = tty->pgrp;
-			tty_nr = new_encode_dev(tty_devnum(tty));
+		if (sig->tty) {
+			tty_pgrp = sig->tty->pgrp;
+			tty_nr = new_encode_dev(tty_devnum(sig->tty));
 		}
 
 		num_threads = atomic_read(&sig->count);
@@ -395,7 +388,6 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct task_stru
 		unlock_task_sighand(task, &flags);
 	}
 	rcu_read_unlock();
-	mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
 
 	if (!whole || num_threads<2)
 		wchan = get_wchan(task);


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* Re: [PATCH] do_task_stat: don't take tty_mutex
  2006-10-22 15:57 [PATCH] do_task_stat: don't take tty_mutex Oleg Nesterov
@ 2006-10-23 11:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
  2006-10-23 14:05   ` Oleg Nesterov
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Peter Zijlstra @ 2006-10-23 11:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Oleg Nesterov; +Cc: Andrew Morton, Alan Cox, linux-kernel

On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 19:57 +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Depends on
> 	tty-signal-tty-locking.patch
> 
> ->signal->tty is protected by ->siglock, no need to take the global tty_mutex.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>

->siglock protects the value of ->signal->tty, not memory it points to;
however since destroying the tty also means clearing all ->signal->tty
references, which means taking all ->siglocks, just holding the
->siglock around this piece of code looks sufficient indeed.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

> --- rc2-mm2/fs/proc/array.c~	2006-10-22 19:28:17.000000000 +0400
> +++ rc2-mm2/fs/proc/array.c	2006-10-22 19:45:52.000000000 +0400
> @@ -346,20 +346,13 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct task_stru
>  	sigemptyset(&sigcatch);
>  	cutime = cstime = utime = stime = cputime_zero;
>  
> -	mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
>  	rcu_read_lock();
>  	if (lock_task_sighand(task, &flags)) {
>  		struct signal_struct *sig = task->signal;
> -		struct tty_struct *tty = sig->tty;
>  
> -		if (tty) {
> -			/*
> -			 * sig->tty is not stable, but tty_mutex
> -			 * protects us from release_dev(tty)
> -			 */
> -			barrier();
> -			tty_pgrp = tty->pgrp;
> -			tty_nr = new_encode_dev(tty_devnum(tty));
> +		if (sig->tty) {
> +			tty_pgrp = sig->tty->pgrp;
> +			tty_nr = new_encode_dev(tty_devnum(sig->tty));
>  		}
>  
>  		num_threads = atomic_read(&sig->count);
> @@ -395,7 +388,6 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct task_stru
>  		unlock_task_sighand(task, &flags);
>  	}
>  	rcu_read_unlock();
> -	mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
>  
>  	if (!whole || num_threads<2)
>  		wchan = get_wchan(task);
> 


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* Re: [PATCH] do_task_stat: don't take tty_mutex
  2006-10-23 11:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
@ 2006-10-23 14:05   ` Oleg Nesterov
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Oleg Nesterov @ 2006-10-23 14:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Peter Zijlstra; +Cc: Andrew Morton, Alan Cox, linux-kernel

On 10/23, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 19:57 +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > Depends on
> > 	tty-signal-tty-locking.patch
> > 
> > ->signal->tty is protected by ->siglock, no need to take the global tty_mutex.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
> 
> ->siglock protects the value of ->signal->tty, not memory it points to;

Yes. That is why we can't avoid tty_mutex in audit_log_exit() (unless we copy
tty->name to the safe location). But is is bad we take tasklist_lock to access
tsk->signal. This 'tsk' should be 'current', we can use get_current_tty().
Or we can use lock_task_sighand() to be safe.

What do you think?

Oleg.

> however since destroying the tty also means clearing all ->signal->tty
> references, which means taking all ->siglocks, just holding the
> ->siglock around this piece of code looks sufficient indeed.
> 
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> 
> > --- rc2-mm2/fs/proc/array.c~	2006-10-22 19:28:17.000000000 +0400
> > +++ rc2-mm2/fs/proc/array.c	2006-10-22 19:45:52.000000000 +0400
> > @@ -346,20 +346,13 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct task_stru
> >  	sigemptyset(&sigcatch);
> >  	cutime = cstime = utime = stime = cputime_zero;
> >  
> > -	mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
> >  	rcu_read_lock();
> >  	if (lock_task_sighand(task, &flags)) {
> >  		struct signal_struct *sig = task->signal;
> > -		struct tty_struct *tty = sig->tty;
> >  
> > -		if (tty) {
> > -			/*
> > -			 * sig->tty is not stable, but tty_mutex
> > -			 * protects us from release_dev(tty)
> > -			 */
> > -			barrier();
> > -			tty_pgrp = tty->pgrp;
> > -			tty_nr = new_encode_dev(tty_devnum(tty));
> > +		if (sig->tty) {
> > +			tty_pgrp = sig->tty->pgrp;
> > +			tty_nr = new_encode_dev(tty_devnum(sig->tty));
> >  		}
> >  
> >  		num_threads = atomic_read(&sig->count);
> > @@ -395,7 +388,6 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct task_stru
> >  		unlock_task_sighand(task, &flags);
> >  	}
> >  	rcu_read_unlock();
> > -	mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
> >  
> >  	if (!whole || num_threads<2)
> >  		wchan = get_wchan(task);
> > 
> 


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