signals: microoptimize the usage of ->curr_target

Suggested by Roland McGrath.

Initialize signal->curr_target in copy_signal().  This way ->curr_target is
never == NULL, we can kill the check in __group_complete_signal's hot path.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 068ffe007529..2bb675af4de3 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -892,7 +892,7 @@ static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
         sig->group_exit_code = 0;
         sig->group_exit_task = NULL;
         sig->group_stop_count = 0;
-        sig->curr_target = NULL;
+        sig->curr_target = tsk;
         init_sigpending(&sig->shared_pending);
         INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sig->posix_timers);
 
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 17859f0d8411..0298bd3d431b 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -863,10 +863,6 @@ __group_complete_signal(int sig, struct task_struct *p)
                  * Otherwise try to find a suitable thread.
                  */
                 t = signal->curr_target;
-                if (t == NULL)
-                        /* restart balancing at this thread */
-                        t = signal->curr_target = p;
-
                 while (!wants_signal(sig, t)) {
                         t = next_thread(t);
                         if (t == signal->curr_target)