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kernel: is_current_single_threaded: don't use ->mmap_sem
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is_current_single_threaded() can safely miss a freshly forked CLONE_VM
task, but in this case it must not miss its parent. That is why we take
mm->mmap_sem for writing to make sure a thread/task with the same ->mm
can't pass exit_mm() and disappear.

However we can avoid ->mmap_sem and rely on rcu/barriers:

	- if we do not see the exiting parent on thread/process list
	  we see the result of list_del_rcu(), in this case we must
	  also see the result of list_add_rcu() which does wmb().

	- if we do see the parent but its ->mm == NULL, we need rmb()
	  to make sure we can't miss the child.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <[email protected]>
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oleg-nesterov authored and James Morris committed Jul 16, 2009
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10 changes: 6 additions & 4 deletions lib/is_single_threaded.c
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@@ -22,16 +22,13 @@ bool current_is_single_threaded(void)
struct task_struct *p, *t;
bool ret;

might_sleep();

if (atomic_read(&task->signal->live) != 1)
return false;

if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 1)
return true;

ret = false;
down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
rcu_read_lock();
for_each_process(p) {
if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD))
@@ -45,12 +42,17 @@ bool current_is_single_threaded(void)
goto found;
if (likely(t->mm))
break;
/*
* t->mm == NULL. Make sure next_thread/next_task
* will see other CLONE_VM tasks which might be
* forked before exiting.
*/
smp_rmb();
} while_each_thread(p, t);
}
ret = true;
found:
rcu_read_unlock();
up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);

return ret;
}

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