linux-kernel - Re: [rfc 2/3] fs, proc: Introduce the Children: line in /proc/<pid>/status

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Message-Id: <20111201132911.e20f1fa3.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:29:11 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
Subject: Re: [rfc 2/3] fs, proc: Introduce the Children: line in
 /proc/<pid>/status

On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:54:34 +0400
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com> wrote:

> +int proc_pid_children(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
> +		      struct pid *pid, struct task_struct *task)
> +{
> +	struct task_struct *c;
> +
> +	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
> +	list_for_each_entry(c, &task->children, sibling)
> +		seq_printf(m, " %d", pid_nr_ns(task_pid(c), ns));
> +	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> +	seq_putc(m, '\n');
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}

That's a potentially very long hold time for tasklist_lock, and
userspace can invoke this at a high frequency.  Not good.

I think this can all be done under rcu_read_lock() with
list_for_each_entry_rcu().

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