linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/6] signal: retarget_shared_pending: consider shared/unblocked signals only

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Date:	Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:20:45 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Nikita V. Youshchenko" <nyoushchenko@...sta.com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/6] signal: retarget_shared_pending: consider
	shared/unblocked signals only

exit_signals() checks signal_pending() before retarget_shared_pending() but
this is suboptimal. We can avoid the while_each_thread() loop in case when
there are no shared signals visible to us.

Add the has_pending_signals(shared_pending, blocked) check. We don not use
tsk->blocked directly but pass this sigset_t as an argument, this is needed
for the next patch.

Note: we can optimize this more. while_each_thread(t) can check t->blocked
into account and stop after every pending signal has the new target.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
---

 kernel/signal.c |    7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- sigprocmask/kernel/signal.c~2_optimize_retarget	2011-04-10 19:33:45.000000000 +0200
+++ sigprocmask/kernel/signal.c	2011-04-10 21:54:24.000000000 +0200
@@ -2022,10 +2022,13 @@ relock:
  * group-wide signal. Another thread should be notified now to take
  * the signal since we will not.
  */
-static void retarget_shared_pending(struct task_struct *tsk)
+static void retarget_shared_pending(struct task_struct *tsk, sigset_t *blocked)
 {
 	struct task_struct *t;
 
+	if (!has_pending_signals(&tsk->signal->shared_pending.signal, blocked))
+		return;
+
 	t = tsk;
 	while_each_thread(tsk, t) {
 		if (!signal_pending(t) && !(t->flags & PF_EXITING))
@@ -2051,7 +2054,7 @@ void exit_signals(struct task_struct *ts
 	if (!signal_pending(tsk))
 		goto out;
 
-	retarget_shared_pending(tsk);
+	retarget_shared_pending(tsk, &tsk->blocked);
 
 	if (unlikely(tsk->signal->group_stop_count) &&
 			!--tsk->signal->group_stop_count) {

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