From d11c563dd20ff35da5652c3e1c989d9e10e1d6d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:04:50 -0800 Subject: sched: Use lockdep-based checking on rcu_dereference() Update the rcu_dereference() usages to take advantage of the new lockdep-based checking. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-6-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ -v2: fix allmodconfig missing symbol export build failure on x86 ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/exit.c | 14 +++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/exit.c') diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 546774a31a66..45ed043b8bf5 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -85,7 +85,9 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk) BUG_ON(!sig); BUG_ON(!atomic_read(&sig->count)); - sighand = rcu_dereference(tsk->sighand); + sighand = rcu_dereference_check(tsk->sighand, + rcu_read_lock_held() || + lockdep_is_held(&tasklist_lock)); spin_lock(&sighand->siglock); posix_cpu_timers_exit(tsk); @@ -170,8 +172,10 @@ void release_task(struct task_struct * p) repeat: tracehook_prepare_release_task(p); /* don't need to get the RCU readlock here - the process is dead and - * can't be modifying its own credentials */ + * can't be modifying its own credentials. But shut RCU-lockdep up */ + rcu_read_lock(); atomic_dec(&__task_cred(p)->user->processes); + rcu_read_unlock(); proc_flush_task(p); @@ -473,9 +477,11 @@ static void close_files(struct files_struct * files) /* * It is safe to dereference the fd table without RCU or * ->file_lock because this is the last reference to the - * files structure. + * files structure. But use RCU to shut RCU-lockdep up. */ + rcu_read_lock(); fdt = files_fdtable(files); + rcu_read_unlock(); for (;;) { unsigned long set; i = j * __NFDBITS; @@ -521,10 +527,12 @@ void put_files_struct(struct files_struct *files) * at the end of the RCU grace period. Otherwise, * you can free files immediately. */ + rcu_read_lock(); fdt = files_fdtable(files); if (fdt != &files->fdtab) kmem_cache_free(files_cachep, files); free_fdtable(fdt); + rcu_read_unlock(); } } -- cgit v1.2.1