[PATCH] convert sighand_cache to use SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU

This patch borrows a clever Hugh's 'struct anon_vma' trick.

Without tasklist_lock held we can't trust task->sighand until we locked it
and re-checked that it is still the same.

But this means we don't need to defer 'kmem_cache_free(sighand)'.  We can
return the memory to slab immediately, all we need is to be sure that
sighand->siglock can't dissapear inside rcu protected section.

To do so we need to initialize ->siglock inside ctor function,
SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU does the rest.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

4 files changed, 13 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 9046ad2..950ebd4 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -768,7 +768,6 @@ no_thread_group:
 		/*
 		 * Move our state over to newsighand and switch it in.
 		 */
-		spin_lock_init(&newsighand->siglock);
 		atomic_set(&newsighand->count, 1);
 		memcpy(newsighand->action, oldsighand->action,
 		       sizeof(newsighand->action));
@@ -785,7 +784,7 @@ no_thread_group:
 		write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
 
 		if (atomic_dec_and_test(&oldsighand->count))
-			sighand_free(oldsighand);
+			kmem_cache_free(sighand_cachep, oldsighand);
 	}
 
 	BUG_ON(!thread_group_leader(current));
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index ddc0df7..bbcfc87 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -355,16 +355,8 @@ struct sighand_struct {
 	atomic_t		count;
 	struct k_sigaction	action[_NSIG];
 	spinlock_t		siglock;
-	struct rcu_head		rcu;
 };
 
-extern void sighand_free_cb(struct rcu_head *rhp);
-
-static inline void sighand_free(struct sighand_struct *sp)
-{
-	call_rcu(&sp->rcu, sighand_free_cb);
-}
-
 /*
  * NOTE! "signal_struct" does not have it's own
  * locking, because a shared signal_struct always
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 0c32e28..33ffb5b 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -786,14 +786,6 @@ int unshare_files(void)
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(unshare_files);
 
-void sighand_free_cb(struct rcu_head *rhp)
-{
-	struct sighand_struct *sp;
-
-	sp = container_of(rhp, struct sighand_struct, rcu);
-	kmem_cache_free(sighand_cachep, sp);
-}
-
 static inline int copy_sighand(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct * tsk)
 {
 	struct sighand_struct *sig;
@@ -806,7 +798,6 @@ static inline int copy_sighand(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct * t
 	rcu_assign_pointer(tsk->sighand, sig);
 	if (!sig)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	spin_lock_init(&sig->siglock);
 	atomic_set(&sig->count, 1);
 	memcpy(sig->action, current->sighand->action, sizeof(sig->action));
 	return 0;
@@ -1356,11 +1347,21 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
 #define ARCH_MIN_MMSTRUCT_ALIGN 0
 #endif
 
+static void sighand_ctor(void *data, kmem_cache_t *cachep, unsigned long flags)
+{
+	struct sighand_struct *sighand = data;
+
+	if ((flags & (SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY | SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR)) ==
+					SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR)
+		spin_lock_init(&sighand->siglock);
+}
+
 void __init proc_caches_init(void)
 {
 	sighand_cachep = kmem_cache_create("sighand_cache",
 			sizeof(struct sighand_struct), 0,
-			SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC, NULL, NULL);
+			SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
+			sighand_ctor, NULL);
 	signal_cachep = kmem_cache_create("signal_cache",
 			sizeof(struct signal_struct), 0,
 			SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC, NULL, NULL);
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index dc8f91b..b0b1ca9 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ void __exit_sighand(struct task_struct *tsk)
 	/* Ok, we're done with the signal handlers */
 	tsk->sighand = NULL;
 	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&sighand->count))
-		sighand_free(sighand);
+		kmem_cache_free(sighand_cachep, sighand);
 }
 
 void exit_sighand(struct task_struct *tsk)