linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] exit: wait_task_zombie: kill the no longer necessary spin_lock

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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:34:00 +0100
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Dylan Hatch <dylanbhatch@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] exit: wait_task_zombie: kill the no longer necessary
 spin_lock_irq(siglock)

After the recent changes nobody use siglock to read the values protected
by stats_lock, we can kill spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock) and
update the comment.

With this patch only __exit_signal() and thread_group_start_cputime() take
stats_lock under siglock.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/exit.c | 10 +++-------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 3988a02efaef..dfb963d2f862 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -1127,17 +1127,14 @@ static int wait_task_zombie(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *p)
 		 * and nobody can change them.
 		 *
 		 * psig->stats_lock also protects us from our sub-threads
-		 * which can reap other children at the same time. Until
-		 * we change k_getrusage()-like users to rely on this lock
-		 * we have to take ->siglock as well.
+		 * which can reap other children at the same time.
 		 *
 		 * We use thread_group_cputime_adjusted() to get times for
 		 * the thread group, which consolidates times for all threads
 		 * in the group including the group leader.
 		 */
 		thread_group_cputime_adjusted(p, &tgutime, &tgstime);
-		spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
-		write_seqlock(&psig->stats_lock);
+		write_seqlock_irq(&psig->stats_lock);
 		psig->cutime += tgutime + sig->cutime;
 		psig->cstime += tgstime + sig->cstime;
 		psig->cgtime += task_gtime(p) + sig->gtime + sig->cgtime;
@@ -1160,8 +1157,7 @@ static int wait_task_zombie(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *p)
 			psig->cmaxrss = maxrss;
 		task_io_accounting_add(&psig->ioac, &p->ioac);
 		task_io_accounting_add(&psig->ioac, &sig->ioac);
-		write_sequnlock(&psig->stats_lock);
-		spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
+		write_sequnlock_irq(&psig->stats_lock);
 	}
 
 	if (wo->wo_rusage)
-- 
2.25.1.362.g51ebf55