From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] rework/fix is_single_threaded()
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:45:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090413214513.GA1119@redhat.com> (raw)
- Fix the comment, is_single_threaded(p) actually means that nobody shares
->mm with p.
I think this helper should be renamed, and it should not have arguments.
With or without this patch it must not be used unless p == current,
otherwise we can't safely use p->signal or p->mm.
- "if (atomic_read(&p->signal->count) != 1)" is not right when we have a
zombie group leader, use signal->live instead.
- Add PF_KTHREAD check to skip kernel threads which may borrow p->mm,
otherwise we can return the wrong "false".
- Use for_each_process() instead of do_each_thread(), all threads must use
the same ->mm.
- Use down_write(mm->mmap_sem) + rcu_read_lock() instead of tasklist_lock
to iterate over the process list. If there is another CLONE_VM process
it can't pass exit_mm() which takes the same mm->mmap_sem. We can miss
a freshly forked CLONE_VM task, but this doesn't matter because we must
see its parent and return false.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
--- 6.30/lib/is_single_threaded.c~ISS 2009-04-06 00:03:42.000000000 +0200
+++ 6.30/lib/is_single_threaded.c 2009-04-13 23:39:56.000000000 +0200
@@ -12,34 +12,44 @@
#include <linux/sched.h>
-/**
- * is_single_threaded - Determine if a thread group is single-threaded or not
- * @p: A task in the thread group in question
- *
- * This returns true if the thread group to which a task belongs is single
- * threaded, false if it is not.
+/*
+ * Returns true if the task does not share ->mm with another thread/process.
*/
-bool is_single_threaded(struct task_struct *p)
+bool is_single_threaded(struct task_struct *task)
{
- struct task_struct *g, *t;
- struct mm_struct *mm = p->mm;
+ struct mm_struct *mm = task->mm;
+ struct task_struct *p, *t;
+ bool ret;
- if (atomic_read(&p->signal->count) != 1)
- goto no;
+ might_sleep();
- if (atomic_read(&p->mm->mm_users) != 1) {
- read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
- do_each_thread(g, t) {
- if (t->mm == mm && t != p)
- goto no_unlock;
- } while_each_thread(g, t);
- read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
- }
+ if (atomic_read(&task->signal->live) != 1)
+ return false;
- return true;
+ if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 1)
+ return true;
-no_unlock:
- read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
-no:
- return false;
+ ret = false;
+ down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ for_each_process(p) {
+ if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD))
+ continue;
+ if (unlikely(p == task->group_leader))
+ continue;
+
+ t = p;
+ do {
+ if (unlikely(t->mm == mm))
+ goto found;
+ if (likely(t->mm))
+ break;
+ } while_each_thread(p, t);
+ }
+ ret = true;
+found:
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
+
+ return ret;
}
next reply other threads:[~2009-04-13 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-13 21:45 Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2009-04-15 23:32 ` [PATCH] rework/fix is_single_threaded() Andrew Morton
2009-04-16 13:40 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-04-16 10:04 ` David Howells
2009-04-16 13:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-04-16 14:36 ` Stephen Smalley
2009-04-16 14:54 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-18 19:07 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-18 19:42 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-22 18:51 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-22 17:14 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-22 21:04 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-22 19:24 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-07-09 13:01 ` David Howells
2009-07-09 21:25 ` Oleg Nesterov
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