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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
	Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
	Lennart Poettering <lpoetter@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] wait: use EXIT_TRACE only if thread_group_leader(zombie)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 18:39:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140220173905.GA21856@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140220173838.GA21825@redhat.com>

wait_task_zombie() always uses EXIT_TRACE/ptrace_unlink() if
ptrace_reparented(). This is suboptimal and a bit confusing:
we do not need do_notify_parent(p) if !thread_group_leader(p)
and in this case we also do not need ptrace_unlink(), we can
rely on ptrace_release_task().

Change wait_task_zombie() to check thread_group_leader() along
with ptrace_reparented() and simplify the final p->exit_state
transition.

Tested-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---
 kernel/exit.c |   17 +++++++----------
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index c702824..aaad08d 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -1042,7 +1042,7 @@ static int wait_task_zombie(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *p)
 	/*
 	 * Move the task's state to DEAD/TRACE, only one thread can do this.
 	 */
-	state = traced ? EXIT_TRACE : EXIT_DEAD;
+	state = traced && thread_group_leader(p) ? EXIT_TRACE : EXIT_DEAD;
 	if (cmpxchg(&p->exit_state, EXIT_ZOMBIE, state) != EXIT_ZOMBIE)
 		return 0;
 	/*
@@ -1142,18 +1142,15 @@ static int wait_task_zombie(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *p)
 	if (!retval)
 		retval = pid;
 
-	if (traced) {
+	if (state == EXIT_TRACE) {
 		write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
 		/* We dropped tasklist, ptracer could die and untrace */
 		ptrace_unlink(p);
-		/*
-		 * If this is not a sub-thread, notify the parent.
-		 * If parent wants a zombie, don't release it now.
-		 */
-		state = EXIT_DEAD;
-		if (thread_group_leader(p) &&
-		    !do_notify_parent(p, p->exit_signal))
-			state = EXIT_ZOMBIE;
+
+		/* If parent wants a zombie, don't release it now */
+		state = EXIT_ZOMBIE;
+		if (do_notify_parent(p, p->exit_signal))
+			state = EXIT_DEAD;
 		p->exit_state = state;
 		write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
 	}
-- 
1.5.5.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-20 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-20 17:38 [PATCH 0/5] kill the racy EXIT_ZOMBIE->EXIT_DEAD->EXIT_ZOMBIE transition Oleg Nesterov
2014-02-20 17:38 ` [PATCH 1/5] wait: fix reparent_leader() vs EXIT_DEAD->EXIT_ZOMBIE race Oleg Nesterov
2014-02-20 17:39 ` [PATCH 2/5] wait: introduce EXIT_TRACE to avoid the racy EXIT_DEAD->EXIT_ZOMBIE transition Oleg Nesterov
2014-02-20 17:39 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2014-02-20 17:39 ` [PATCH 4/5] wait: completely ignore the EXIT_DEAD tasks Oleg Nesterov
2014-02-20 17:39 ` [PATCH 5/5] wait: swap EXIT_ZOMBIE and EXIT_DEAD to hide EXIT_TRACE from user-space Oleg Nesterov
2014-02-20 19:48 ` [PATCH 0/5] kill the racy EXIT_ZOMBIE->EXIT_DEAD->EXIT_ZOMBIE transition Tejun Heo
2014-02-24 15:51   ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-02-26 16:55 ` [PATCH 0/2] wait: WSTOPPED & ptrace fixes Oleg Nesterov
2014-02-26 16:55   ` [PATCH 1/2] wait: WSTOPPED|WCONTINUED hangs if a zombie child is traced by real_parent Oleg Nesterov
2014-02-26 16:56   ` [PATCH 2/2] wait: WSTOPPED|WCONTINUED doesn't work if a zombie leader is traced by another process Oleg Nesterov

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