From b5c5442bb6bce0c67701d55124be561043a51faf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:05:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] kthread: kill task_get_live_kthread()
task_get_live_kthread() looks confusing and unneeded. It does
get_task_struct() but only kthread_stop() needs this, it can be called
even if the calller doesn't have a reference when we know that this
kthread can't exit until we do kthread_stop().
kthread_park() and kthread_unpark() do not need get_task_struct(), the
callers already have the reference. And it can not help if we can race
with the exiting kthread anyway, kthread_park() can hang forever in this
case.
Change kthread_park() and kthread_unpark() to use to_live_kthread(),
change kthread_stop() to do get_task_struct() by hand and remove
task_get_live_kthread().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
kernel/kthread.c | 20 +++++++-------------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index a84dee265f94f..9b12d65186f7f 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -324,12 +324,6 @@ struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_cpu(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
return p;
}
-static struct kthread *task_get_live_kthread(struct task_struct *k)
-{
- get_task_struct(k);
- return to_live_kthread(k);
-}
-
static void __kthread_unpark(struct task_struct *k, struct kthread *kthread)
{
clear_bit(KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK, &kthread->flags);
@@ -356,11 +350,10 @@ static void __kthread_unpark(struct task_struct *k, struct kthread *kthread)
*/
void kthread_unpark(struct task_struct *k)
{
- struct kthread *kthread = task_get_live_kthread(k);
+ struct kthread *kthread = to_live_kthread(k);
if (kthread)
__kthread_unpark(k, kthread);
- put_task_struct(k);
}
/**
@@ -377,7 +370,7 @@ void kthread_unpark(struct task_struct *k)
*/
int kthread_park(struct task_struct *k)
{
- struct kthread *kthread = task_get_live_kthread(k);
+ struct kthread *kthread = to_live_kthread(k);
int ret = -ENOSYS;
if (kthread) {
@@ -390,7 +383,6 @@ int kthread_park(struct task_struct *k)
}
ret = 0;
}
- put_task_struct(k);
return ret;
}
@@ -411,10 +403,13 @@ int kthread_park(struct task_struct *k)
*/
int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k)
{
- struct kthread *kthread = task_get_live_kthread(k);
+ struct kthread *kthread;
int ret;
trace_sched_kthread_stop(k);
+
+ get_task_struct(k);
+ kthread = to_live_kthread(k);
if (kthread) {
set_bit(KTHREAD_SHOULD_STOP, &kthread->flags);
__kthread_unpark(k, kthread);
@@ -422,10 +417,9 @@ int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k)
wait_for_completion(&kthread->exited);
}
ret = k->exit_code;
-
put_task_struct(k);
- trace_sched_kthread_stop_ret(ret);
+ trace_sched_kthread_stop_ret(ret);
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_stop);
--
2.30.2