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authorRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>2010-09-07 19:36:28 -0700
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>2011-01-06 18:08:17 -0500
commit530cec0b21b6f8fdd2cd45893bb9c06b6afe256e (patch)
treeaa3ae6e6131deca81967baad7a68e0cc14b21e5c
parentfe3a036d4230f0268aec6409ec396b323c0b1f0e (diff)
execve: improve interactivity with large arguments
commit 7993bc1f4663c0db67bb8f0d98e6678145b387cd upstream. 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 <roland@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
-rw-r--r--fs/exec.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index b884fdebbdb9..b187ab03133f 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -419,6 +419,8 @@ static int copy_strings(int argc, char __user * __user * argv,
while (len > 0) {
int offset, bytes_to_copy;
+ cond_resched();
+
offset = pos % PAGE_SIZE;
if (offset == 0)
offset = PAGE_SIZE;