From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932144AbWDFSJY (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Apr 2006 14:09:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932204AbWDFSJX (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Apr 2006 14:09:23 -0400 Received: from mail.tv-sign.ru ([213.234.233.51]:23960 "EHLO several.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932151AbWDFSJW (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Apr 2006 14:09:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 02:06:28 +0400 From: Oleg Nesterov To: Andrew Morton Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Ingo Molnar , "Paul E. McKenney" , Roland McGrath , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 2/4] coredump: speedup SIGKILL sending Message-ID: <20060406220628.GA237@oleg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org With this patch a thread group is killed atomically under ->siglock. This is faster because we can use sigaddset() instead of force_sig_info() and this is used in further patches. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov --- rc1/fs/exec.c~2_KILL 2006-04-06 15:10:28.000000000 +0400 +++ rc1/fs/exec.c 2006-04-06 15:19:33.000000000 +0400 @@ -1387,17 +1387,24 @@ static void format_corename(char *corena static void zap_process(struct task_struct *start, int *ptraced) { struct task_struct *t; + unsigned long flags; + + spin_lock_irqsave(&start->sighand->siglock, flags); t = start; do { if (t != current && t->mm) { t->mm->core_waiters++; - force_sig_specific(SIGKILL, t); + sigaddset(&t->pending.signal, SIGKILL); + signal_wake_up(t, 1); + if (unlikely(t->ptrace) && unlikely(t->parent->mm == t->mm)) *ptraced = 1; } } while ((t = next_thread(t)) != start); + + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&start->sighand->siglock, flags); } static void zap_threads (struct mm_struct *mm)