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authorRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>2005-10-21 15:03:29 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-10-21 15:38:08 -0700
commit25f407f0b668f5e4ebd5d13e1fb4306ba6427ead (patch)
tree10d8661419da9e0d6be6d22ef319582d052c4a26 /kernel/posix-timers.c
parent9465bee863bc4c6cf1566c12d6f92a8133e3da5c (diff)
[PATCH] Call exit_itimers from do_exit, not __exit_signal
When I originally moved exit_itimers into __exit_signal, that was the only place where we could reliably know it was the last thread in the group dying, without races. Since then we've gotten the signal_struct.live counter, and do_exit can reliably do group-wide cleanup work. This patch moves the call to do_exit, where it's made without locks. This avoids the deadlock issues that the old __exit_signal code's comment talks about, and the one that Oleg found recently with process CPU timers. [ This replaces e03d13e985d48ac4885382c9e3b1510c78bd047f, which is why it was just reverted. ] Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/posix-timers.c')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c
index b7b532acd9f..dda3cda73c7 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -1157,7 +1157,7 @@ retry_delete:
}
/*
- * This is called by __exit_signal, only when there are no more
+ * This is called by do_exit or de_thread, only when there are no more
* references to the shared signal_struct.
*/
void exit_itimers(struct signal_struct *sig)