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| author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2014-12-10 15:54:54 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-12-10 17:41:17 -0800 |
| commit | 26e75b5c3d2226cb995fde064744aa93f63849c4 (patch) | |
| tree | 3cdeaa25eba2f3c7aa5ecd897dd796116c8b5712 /kernel/exit.c | |
| parent | 986094dfe161b4346831547136d4e5ed7f94310e (diff) | |
exit: release_task: fix the comment about group leader accounting
Contrary to what the comment in __exit_signal() says we do account the
group leader. Fix this and explain why.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Sterling Alexander <stalexan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/exit.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 6297eb0f5bd2..9a65f10dc9ff 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -118,13 +118,10 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk) } /* - * Accumulate here the counters for all threads but the group leader - * as they die, so they can be added into the process-wide totals - * when those are taken. The group leader stays around as a zombie as - * long as there are other threads. When it gets reaped, the exit.c - * code will add its counts into these totals. We won't ever get here - * for the group leader, since it will have been the last reference on - * the signal_struct. + * Accumulate here the counters for all threads as they die. We could + * skip the group leader because it is the last user of signal_struct, + * but we want to avoid the race with thread_group_cputime() which can + * see the empty ->thread_head list. */ task_cputime(tsk, &utime, &stime); write_seqlock(&sig->stats_lock); |