[PATCH] convert sighand_cache to use SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU
This patch borrows a clever Hugh's 'struct anon_vma' trick.
Without tasklist_lock held we can't trust task->sighand until we locked it
and re-checked that it is still the same.
But this means we don't need to defer 'kmem_cache_free(sighand)'. We can
return the memory to slab immediately, all we need is to be sure that
sighand->siglock can't dissapear inside rcu protected section.
To do so we need to initialize ->siglock inside ctor function,
SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU does the rest.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 0c32e28..33ffb5b 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -786,14 +786,6 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL(unshare_files);
-void sighand_free_cb(struct rcu_head *rhp)
-{
- struct sighand_struct *sp;
-
- sp = container_of(rhp, struct sighand_struct, rcu);
- kmem_cache_free(sighand_cachep, sp);
-}
-
static inline int copy_sighand(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct * tsk)
{
struct sighand_struct *sig;
@@ -806,7 +798,6 @@
rcu_assign_pointer(tsk->sighand, sig);
if (!sig)
return -ENOMEM;
- spin_lock_init(&sig->siglock);
atomic_set(&sig->count, 1);
memcpy(sig->action, current->sighand->action, sizeof(sig->action));
return 0;
@@ -1356,11 +1347,21 @@
#define ARCH_MIN_MMSTRUCT_ALIGN 0
#endif
+static void sighand_ctor(void *data, kmem_cache_t *cachep, unsigned long flags)
+{
+ struct sighand_struct *sighand = data;
+
+ if ((flags & (SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY | SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR)) ==
+ SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR)
+ spin_lock_init(&sighand->siglock);
+}
+
void __init proc_caches_init(void)
{
sighand_cachep = kmem_cache_create("sighand_cache",
sizeof(struct sighand_struct), 0,
- SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC, NULL, NULL);
+ SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
+ sighand_ctor, NULL);
signal_cachep = kmem_cache_create("signal_cache",
sizeof(struct signal_struct), 0,
SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC, NULL, NULL);
