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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-25 08:58:50 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-25 08:58:50 -0700
commit19426a8f810752b4218e59b1e2187f33e255f7bc (patch)
treedd88adc38ef98a10b1eea952f16d7480411e2409 /kernel
parent0f1493a60167cf6333626456d3fc8aff4e6fa237 (diff)
parent8af088710d1eb3c980e0ef3779c8d47f3f217b48 (diff)
Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: posix-timers: RCU conversion
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/posix-timers.c25
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c
index a1b5edf1bf9..4556182527f 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -491,6 +491,13 @@ static struct k_itimer * alloc_posix_timer(void)
return tmr;
}
+static void k_itimer_rcu_free(struct rcu_head *head)
+{
+ struct k_itimer *tmr = container_of(head, struct k_itimer, it.rcu);
+
+ kmem_cache_free(posix_timers_cache, tmr);
+}
+
#define IT_ID_SET 1
#define IT_ID_NOT_SET 0
static void release_posix_timer(struct k_itimer *tmr, int it_id_set)
@@ -503,7 +510,7 @@ static void release_posix_timer(struct k_itimer *tmr, int it_id_set)
}
put_pid(tmr->it_pid);
sigqueue_free(tmr->sigq);
- kmem_cache_free(posix_timers_cache, tmr);
+ call_rcu(&tmr->it.rcu, k_itimer_rcu_free);
}
static struct k_clock *clockid_to_kclock(const clockid_t id)
@@ -631,22 +638,18 @@ out:
static struct k_itimer *__lock_timer(timer_t timer_id, unsigned long *flags)
{
struct k_itimer *timr;
- /*
- * Watch out here. We do a irqsave on the idr_lock and pass the
- * flags part over to the timer lock. Must not let interrupts in
- * while we are moving the lock.
- */
- spin_lock_irqsave(&idr_lock, *flags);
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
timr = idr_find(&posix_timers_id, (int)timer_id);
if (timr) {
- spin_lock(&timr->it_lock);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&timr->it_lock, *flags);
if (timr->it_signal == current->signal) {
- spin_unlock(&idr_lock);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
return timr;
}
- spin_unlock(&timr->it_lock);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&timr->it_lock, *flags);
}
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&idr_lock, *flags);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
return NULL;
}