From c7e49c1488ab20342eaaf38f1ca35a207f4c051d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:03:07 -0700 Subject: ptrace: optimize exit_ptrace() for the likely case exit_ptrace() takes tasklist_lock unconditionally. We need this lock to avoid the race with ptrace_traceme(), it acts as a barrier. Change its caller, forget_original_parent(), to call exit_ptrace() under tasklist_lock. Change exit_ptrace() to drop and reacquire this lock if needed. This allows us to add the fastpath list_empty(ptraced) check. In the likely no-tracees case exit_ptrace() just returns and we avoid the lock() + unlock() sequence. "Zhang, Yanmin" suggested to add this check, and he reports that this change adds about 11% improvement in some tests. Suggested-and-tested-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/ptrace.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/ptrace.c') diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c index 74a3d693c196..f34d798ef4a2 100644 --- a/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -324,26 +324,32 @@ int ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *child, unsigned int data) } /* - * Detach all tasks we were using ptrace on. + * Detach all tasks we were using ptrace on. Called with tasklist held + * for writing, and returns with it held too. But note it can release + * and reacquire the lock. */ void exit_ptrace(struct task_struct *tracer) { struct task_struct *p, *n; LIST_HEAD(ptrace_dead); - write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock); + if (likely(list_empty(&tracer->ptraced))) + return; + list_for_each_entry_safe(p, n, &tracer->ptraced, ptrace_entry) { if (__ptrace_detach(tracer, p)) list_add(&p->ptrace_entry, &ptrace_dead); } - write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); + write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); BUG_ON(!list_empty(&tracer->ptraced)); list_for_each_entry_safe(p, n, &ptrace_dead, ptrace_entry) { list_del_init(&p->ptrace_entry); release_task(p); } + + write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock); } int ptrace_readdata(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long src, char __user *dst, int len) -- cgit