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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2006-01-08 01:01:37 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-08 20:13:40 -0800
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parent4369ef3c3e9d3bd9b879580678778f558d481e90 (diff)
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[PATCH] RCU signal handling
RCU tasklist_lock and RCU signal handling: send signals RCU-read-locked instead of tasklist_lock read-locked. This is a scalability improvement on SMP and a preemption-latency improvement under PREEMPT_RCU. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index ee51568..c73a7eb 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ repeat:
__ptrace_unlink(p);
BUG_ON(!list_empty(&p->ptrace_list) || !list_empty(&p->ptrace_children));
__exit_signal(p);
- __exit_sighand(p);
/*
* Note that the fastpath in sys_times depends on __exit_signal having
* updated the counters before a task is removed from the tasklist of
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