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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/exit.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 6297eb0f5bd2..9a65f10dc9ff 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -118,13 +118,10 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk) } /* - * Accumulate here the counters for all threads but the group leader - * as they die, so they can be added into the process-wide totals - * when those are taken. The group leader stays around as a zombie as - * long as there are other threads. When it gets reaped, the exit.c - * code will add its counts into these totals. We won't ever get here - * for the group leader, since it will have been the last reference on - * the signal_struct. + * Accumulate here the counters for all threads as they die. We could + * skip the group leader because it is the last user of signal_struct, + * but we want to avoid the race with thread_group_cputime() which can + * see the empty ->thread_head list. */ task_cputime(tsk, &utime, &stime); write_seqlock(&sig->stats_lock); |