From d359b549bf3d7f42f0084918a4816ea4572e507c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:00:55 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] futex_find_get_task(): don't take tasklist_lock

It is ok to do find_task_by_pid() + get_task_struct() under
rcu_read_lock(), we cand drop tasklist_lock.

Note that testing of ->exit_state is racy with or without tasklist anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
 kernel/futex.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'kernel')

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 9d260e838cff..ca8ef11feb65 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ static struct task_struct * futex_find_get_task(pid_t pid)
 {
 	struct task_struct *p;
 
-	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	p = find_task_by_pid(pid);
 	if (!p)
 		goto out_unlock;
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ static struct task_struct * futex_find_get_task(pid_t pid)
 	}
 	get_task_struct(p);
 out_unlock:
-	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	return p;
 }
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