From 7993bc1f4663c0db67bb8f0d98e6678145b387cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roland McGrath Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 19:36:28 -0700 Subject: execve: improve interactivity with large arguments This adds a preemption point during the copying of the argument and environment strings for execve, in copy_strings(). There is already a preemption point in the count() loop, so this doesn't add any new points in the abstract sense. When the total argument+environment strings are very large, the time spent copying them can be much more than a normal user time slice. So this change improves the interactivity of the rest of the system when one process is doing an execve with very large arguments. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/exec.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs') diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 1b63237fc6dc..6f2d777431a8 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -419,6 +419,8 @@ static int copy_strings(int argc, const char __user *const __user *argv, while (len > 0) { int offset, bytes_to_copy; + cond_resched(); + offset = pos % PAGE_SIZE; if (offset == 0) offset = PAGE_SIZE; -- cgit v1.2.2