From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 22:18:15 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: posix-timers: check ->it_signal instead of ->it_pid to validate the timer
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.29-rc1~571^2^7~1
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=899921025b406a71a8aeb2d7855658ea0cf0ed23;p=pandora-kernel.git

posix-timers: check ->it_signal instead of ->it_pid to validate the timer

Impact: clean up, speed up

->it_pid (was ->it_process) has also a special meaning: if it is NULL,
the timer is under deletion or it wasn't initialized yet. We can check
->it_signal != NULL instead, this way we can

	- simplify sys_timer_create() a bit

	- remove yet another check from lock_timer()

	- move put_pid(->it_pid) into release_posix_timer() which
	  runs outside of ->it_lock

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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