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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/exit.c | 67 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched/membarrier.c | 4 |
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 70 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 3bcaec2ea3ba..a46a50d67002 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -234,69 +234,6 @@ repeat: goto repeat; } -/* - * Note that if this function returns a valid task_struct pointer (!NULL) - * task->usage must remain >0 for the duration of the RCU critical section. - */ -struct task_struct *task_rcu_dereference(struct task_struct **ptask) -{ - struct sighand_struct *sighand; - struct task_struct *task; - - /* - * We need to verify that release_task() was not called and thus - * delayed_put_task_struct() can't run and drop the last reference - * before rcu_read_unlock(). We check task->sighand != NULL, - * but we can read the already freed and reused memory. - */ -retry: - task = rcu_dereference(*ptask); - if (!task) - return NULL; - - probe_kernel_address(&task->sighand, sighand); - - /* - * Pairs with atomic_dec_and_test() in put_task_struct(). If this task - * was already freed we can not miss the preceding update of this - * pointer. - */ - smp_rmb(); - if (unlikely(task != READ_ONCE(*ptask))) - goto retry; - - /* - * We've re-checked that "task == *ptask", now we have two different - * cases: - * - * 1. This is actually the same task/task_struct. In this case - * sighand != NULL tells us it is still alive. - * - * 2. This is another task which got the same memory for task_struct. - * We can't know this of course, and we can not trust - * sighand != NULL. - * - * In this case we actually return a random value, but this is - * correct. - * - * If we return NULL - we can pretend that we actually noticed that - * *ptask was updated when the previous task has exited. Or pretend - * that probe_slab_address(&sighand) reads NULL. - * - * If we return the new task (because sighand is not NULL for any - * reason) - this is fine too. This (new) task can't go away before - * another gp pass. - * - * And note: We could even eliminate the false positive if re-read - * task->sighand once again to avoid the falsely NULL. But this case - * is very unlikely so we don't care. - */ - if (!sighand) - return NULL; - - return task; -} - void rcuwait_wake_up(struct rcuwait *w) { struct task_struct *task; @@ -316,10 +253,6 @@ void rcuwait_wake_up(struct rcuwait *w) */ smp_mb(); /* (B) */ - /* - * Avoid using task_rcu_dereference() magic as long as we are careful, - * see comment in rcuwait_wait_event() regarding ->exit_state. - */ task = rcu_dereference(w->task); if (task) wake_up_process(task); diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 3101c662426d..5bc23996ffae 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -1602,7 +1602,7 @@ static void task_numa_compare(struct task_numa_env *env, return; rcu_read_lock(); - cur = task_rcu_dereference(&dst_rq->curr); + cur = rcu_dereference(dst_rq->curr); if (cur && ((cur->flags & PF_EXITING) || is_idle_task(cur))) cur = NULL; diff --git a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c index aa8d75804108..b14250a11608 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c +++ b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static int membarrier_global_expedited(void) continue; rcu_read_lock(); - p = task_rcu_dereference(&cpu_rq(cpu)->curr); + p = rcu_dereference(cpu_rq(cpu)->curr); if (p && p->mm && (atomic_read(&p->mm->membarrier_state) & MEMBARRIER_STATE_GLOBAL_EXPEDITED)) { if (!fallback) @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static int membarrier_private_expedited(int flags) if (cpu == raw_smp_processor_id()) continue; rcu_read_lock(); - p = task_rcu_dereference(&cpu_rq(cpu)->curr); + p = rcu_dereference(cpu_rq(cpu)->curr); if (p && p->mm == current->mm) { if (!fallback) __cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, tmpmask); |