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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | 26 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c index 2d58153074d9..f5e86d282d52 100644 --- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c @@ -975,6 +975,12 @@ static void check_process_timers(struct task_struct *tsk, if (!READ_ONCE(tsk->signal->cputimer.running)) return; + /* + * Signify that a thread is checking for process timers. + * Write access to this field is protected by the sighand lock. + */ + sig->cputimer.checking_timer = true; + /* * Collect the current process totals. */ @@ -1029,6 +1035,8 @@ static void check_process_timers(struct task_struct *tsk, sig->cputime_expires.sched_exp = sched_expires; if (task_cputime_zero(&sig->cputime_expires)) stop_process_timers(sig); + + sig->cputimer.checking_timer = false; } /* @@ -1142,8 +1150,22 @@ static inline int fastpath_timer_check(struct task_struct *tsk) } sig = tsk->signal; - /* Check if cputimer is running. This is accessed without locking. */ - if (READ_ONCE(sig->cputimer.running)) { + /* + * Check if thread group timers expired when the cputimer is + * running and no other thread in the group is already checking + * for thread group cputimers. These fields are read without the + * sighand lock. However, this is fine because this is meant to + * be a fastpath heuristic to determine whether we should try to + * acquire the sighand lock to check/handle timers. + * + * In the worst case scenario, if 'running' or 'checking_timer' gets + * set but the current thread doesn't see the change yet, we'll wait + * until the next thread in the group gets a scheduler interrupt to + * handle the timer. This isn't an issue in practice because these + * types of delays with signals actually getting sent are expected. + */ + if (READ_ONCE(sig->cputimer.running) && + !READ_ONCE(sig->cputimer.checking_timer)) { struct task_cputime group_sample; sample_cputime_atomic(&group_sample, &sig->cputimer.cputime_atomic); |