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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2006-06-26 00:25:48 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-06-26 09:58:24 -0700 |
| commit | 48e6484d49020dba3578ad117b461e8a391e8f0f (patch) | |
| tree | 7824ca84bfe71c3fe2c09a1fedc31106fec4f500 /kernel/exit.c | |
| parent | 662795deb854b31501e0ffb42b7f0cce802c134a (diff) | |
[PATCH] proc: Rewrite the proc dentry flush on exit optimization
To keep the dcache from filling up with dead /proc entries we flush them on
process exit. However over the years that code has gotten hairy with a
dentry_pointer and a lock in task_struct and misdocumented as a correctness
feature.
I have rewritten this code to look and see if we have a corresponding entry in
the dcache and if so flush it on process exit. This removes the extra fields
in the task_struct and allows me to trivially handle the case of a
/proc/<tgid>/task/<pid> entry as well as the current /proc/<pid> entries.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/exit.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index e76bd02e930e..304ef637be6c 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -137,12 +137,8 @@ void release_task(struct task_struct * p) { int zap_leader; task_t *leader; - struct dentry *proc_dentry; - repeat: atomic_dec(&p->user->processes); - spin_lock(&p->proc_lock); - proc_dentry = proc_pid_unhash(p); write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock); ptrace_unlink(p); BUG_ON(!list_empty(&p->ptrace_list) || !list_empty(&p->ptrace_children)); @@ -171,8 +167,7 @@ repeat: sched_exit(p); write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); - spin_unlock(&p->proc_lock); - proc_pid_flush(proc_dentry); + proc_flush_task(p); release_thread(p); call_rcu(&p->rcu, delayed_put_task_struct); |