From 490dea45d00f01847ebebd007685d564aaf2cd98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:06:57 +0100 Subject: itimers: remove the per-cpu-ish-ness Either we bounce once cacheline per cpu per tick, yielding n^2 bounces or we just bounce a single.. Also, using per-cpu allocations for the thread-groups complicates the per-cpu allocator in that its currently aimed to be a fixed sized allocator and the only possible extention to that would be vmap based, which is seriously constrained on 32 bit archs. So making the per-cpu memory requirement depend on the number of processes is an issue. Lastly, it didn't deal with cpu-hotplug, although admittedly that might be fixable. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/fork.c | 15 +++++++-------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/fork.c') diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 7b8f2a78be3..7087d8c0e5e 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -820,14 +820,15 @@ static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk) int ret; if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) { - ret = thread_group_cputime_clone_thread(current); - if (likely(!ret)) { - atomic_inc(¤t->signal->count); - atomic_inc(¤t->signal->live); - } - return ret; + atomic_inc(¤t->signal->count); + atomic_inc(¤t->signal->live); + return 0; } sig = kmem_cache_alloc(signal_cachep, GFP_KERNEL); + + if (sig) + posix_cpu_timers_init_group(sig); + tsk->signal = sig; if (!sig) return -ENOMEM; @@ -864,8 +865,6 @@ static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk) memcpy(sig->rlim, current->signal->rlim, sizeof sig->rlim); task_unlock(current->group_leader); - posix_cpu_timers_init_group(sig); - acct_init_pacct(&sig->pacct); tty_audit_fork(sig); -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258 From 783adf42cf039083dd3c734c07c3bdc707e2bb15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Noonan Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:04:21 -0800 Subject: kernel/fork.c: unused variable 'ret' Removed the unused variable. Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/fork.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/fork.c') diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index e995899ea83..81da4aae85c 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -817,7 +817,6 @@ static void posix_cpu_timers_init_group(struct signal_struct *sig) static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk) { struct signal_struct *sig; - int ret; if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) { atomic_inc(¤t->signal->count); -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258 From 04ec93fe9bc98e3bd8560f79f56fed66dfae40d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li Zefan Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 08:17:19 +0000 Subject: fork.c: fix NULL pointer dereference when nr_threads == threads-max I happened to forked lots of processes, and hit NULL pointer dereference. It is because in copy_process() after checking max_threads, 0 is returned but not -EAGAIN. The bug is introduced by "CRED: Detach the credentials from task_struct" (commit f1752eec6145c97163dbce62d17cf5d928e28a27). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: James Morris Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/fork.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'kernel/fork.c') diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 242a706e772..6d5dbb7a13e 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1005,6 +1005,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags, * triggers too late. This doesn't hurt, the check is only there * to stop root fork bombs. */ + retval = -EAGAIN; if (nr_threads >= max_threads) goto bad_fork_cleanup_count; -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258