From ea6d290ca34c4fd91b7348338c0cc7bdeff94a35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 14:43:16 -0700 Subject: signals: make task_struct->signal immutable/refcountable We have a lot of problems with accessing task_struct->signal, it can "disappear" at any moment. Even current can't use its ->signal safely after exit_notify(). ->siglock helps, but it is not convenient, not always possible, and sometimes it makes sense to use task->signal even after this task has already dead. This patch adds the reference counter, sigcnt, into signal_struct. This reference is owned by task_struct and it is dropped in __put_task_struct(). Perhaps it makes sense to export get/put_signal_struct() later, but currently I don't see the immediate reason. Rename __cleanup_signal() to free_signal_struct() and unexport it. With the previous changes it does nothing except kmem_cache_free(). Change __exit_signal() to not clear/free ->signal, it will be freed when the last reference to any thread in the thread group goes away. Note: - when the last thead exits signal->tty can point to nowhere, see the next patch. - with or without this patch signal_struct->count should go away, or at least it should be "int nr_threads" for fs/proc. This will be addressed later. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Alan Cox Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/sched.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index a95a2455cebe..32e309df408c 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -527,6 +527,7 @@ struct thread_group_cputimer { * the locking of signal_struct. */ struct signal_struct { + atomic_t sigcnt; atomic_t count; atomic_t live; @@ -2101,7 +2102,6 @@ extern void flush_thread(void); extern void exit_thread(void); extern void exit_files(struct task_struct *); -extern void __cleanup_signal(struct signal_struct *); extern void __cleanup_sighand(struct sighand_struct *); extern void exit_itimers(struct signal_struct *); -- cgit v1.2.2