On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:20:39PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The patch '[PATCH] RCU signal handling' [1] added an export for
> __put_task_struct_cb, a put_task_struct helper newly introduced in that
> patch. But the put_task_struct couldn't be used modular previously
> as __put_task_struct wasn't exported. There are not callers of it in
> modular code, and it shouldn't be exported because we don't want drivers
> to hold references to task_structs.
>
> This patch removes the export and folds __put_task_struct into
> __put_task_struct_cb as there's no other caller.
>
> [1] http://www2.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e56d090310d7625ecb43a1eeebd479f04affb48b
Good catch -- I missed the reference to __put_task_struct().
Passes some smoke tests on ppc64.
Thanx, Paul
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
>
> Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched.c 2006-03-09 17:22:08.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c 2006-03-10 21:15:02.000000000 +0100
> @@ -178,13 +178,6 @@
> #define task_hot(p, now, sd) ((long long) ((now) - (p)->last_ran) \
> < (long long) (sd)->cache_hot_time)
>
> -void __put_task_struct_cb(struct rcu_head *rhp)
> -{
> - __put_task_struct(container_of(rhp, struct task_struct, rcu));
> -}
> -
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__put_task_struct_cb);
> -
> /*
> * These are the runqueue data structures:
> */
> Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/sched.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/sched.h 2006-03-04 13:07:15.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/sched.h 2006-03-10 21:16:10.000000000 +0100
> @@ -892,7 +892,6 @@
> }
>
> extern void free_task(struct task_struct *tsk);
> -extern void __put_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk);
> #define get_task_struct(tsk) do { atomic_inc(&(tsk)->usage); } while(0)
>
> extern void __put_task_struct_cb(struct rcu_head *rhp);
> Index: linux-2.6/kernel/fork.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/fork.c 2006-02-21 20:55:58.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6/kernel/fork.c 2006-03-10 21:15:39.000000000 +0100
> @@ -108,8 +108,10 @@
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_task);
>
> -void __put_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk)
> +void __put_task_struct_cb(struct rcu_head *rhp)
> {
> + struct task_struct *tsk = container_of(rhp, struct task_struct, rcu);
> +
> WARN_ON(!(tsk->exit_state & (EXIT_DEAD | EXIT_ZOMBIE)));
> WARN_ON(atomic_read(&tsk->usage));
> WARN_ON(tsk == current);
-
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