From d344193a05da89c97e965da2c5cbf687d7385eae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 14:43:11 -0700 Subject: exit: avoid sig->count in de_thread/__exit_signal synchronization de_thread() and __exit_signal() use signal_struct->count/notify_count for synchronization. We can simplify the code and use ->notify_count only. Instead of comparing these two counters, we can change de_thread() to set ->notify_count = nr_of_sub_threads, then change __exit_signal() to dec-and-test this counter and notify group_exit_task. Note that __exit_signal() checks "notify_count > 0" just for symmetry with exit_notify(), we could just check it is != 0. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Roland McGrath Cc: Veaceslav Falico Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/exit.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/exit.c') diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 59a104c673f7..9220967f4256 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk) * If there is any task waiting for the group exit * then notify it: */ - if (sig->group_exit_task && atomic_read(&sig->count) == sig->notify_count) + if (sig->notify_count > 0 && !--sig->notify_count) wake_up_process(sig->group_exit_task); if (tsk == sig->curr_target) -- cgit v1.2.1