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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>2008-04-30 00:52:38 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-30 08:29:34 -0700
commitd6cf723a142f63ccb92272bc0e9bfffd3c3a5cac (patch)
tree16ec6665ebb03107d40f5ab0884ca7e8394b5358 /kernel/sys.c
parent1406f2d321bae5ac5ff729dcb773336d9c05ec74 (diff)
downloadlinux-d6cf723a142f63ccb92272bc0e9bfffd3c3a5cac.tar.gz
k_getrusage: don't take rcu_read_lock()
Just a trivial example, more to come.

k_getrusage() holds rcu_read_lock() because it was previously required by
lock_task_sighand().  Unneeded now.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sys.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c7
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index e423d0d9e6ff..47c30a20b554 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1572,11 +1572,8 @@ static void k_getrusage(struct task_struct *p, int who, struct rusage *r)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	rcu_read_lock();
-	if (!lock_task_sighand(p, &flags)) {
-		rcu_read_unlock();
+	if (!lock_task_sighand(p, &flags))
 		return;
-	}
 
 	switch (who) {
 		case RUSAGE_BOTH:
@@ -1612,9 +1609,7 @@ static void k_getrusage(struct task_struct *p, int who, struct rusage *r)
 		default:
 			BUG();
 	}
-
 	unlock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
-	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 out:
 	cputime_to_timeval(utime, &r->ru_utime);