From 0c12b51712ced2c0d89a8ec3d546ed810f86d33e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:44:56 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] kill_pid_info: kill acquired_tasklist_lock Kill acquired_tasklist_lock, sig_needs_tasklist() is very cheap nowadays. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/signal.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index 5630255d2e2a..ea4632bd40a0 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -1119,19 +1119,18 @@ kill_pg_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, pid_t pgrp) int kill_pid_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct pid *pid) { int error; - int acquired_tasklist_lock = 0; struct task_struct *p; rcu_read_lock(); - if (unlikely(sig_needs_tasklist(sig))) { + if (unlikely(sig_needs_tasklist(sig))) read_lock(&tasklist_lock); - acquired_tasklist_lock = 1; - } + p = pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_PID); error = -ESRCH; if (p) error = group_send_sig_info(sig, info, p); - if (unlikely(acquired_tasklist_lock)) + + if (unlikely(sig_needs_tasklist(sig))) read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); rcu_read_unlock(); return error; -- cgit v1.2.3