From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:45:34 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: proc_flush_task: flush /proc/tid/task/pid when a sub-thread exits
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.32-rc1~315
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9b4d1cbef8f41aff2b3e4ca31f566c071fe601de;p=pandora-kernel.git

proc_flush_task: flush /proc/tid/task/pid when a sub-thread exits

The exiting sub-thread flushes /proc/pid only, but this doesn't buy too
much: ps and friends mostly use /proc/tid/task/pid.

Remove "if (thread_group_leader())" checks from proc_flush_task() path,
this means we always remove /proc/tid/task/pid dentry on exit, and this
actually matches the comment above proc_flush_task().

The test-case:

	static void* tfunc(void *arg)
	{
		char name[256];

		sprintf(name, "/proc/%d/task/%ld/status", getpid(), gettid());
		close(open(name, O_RDONLY));

		return NULL;
	}

	int main(void)
	{
		pthread_t t;

		for (;;) {
			if (!pthread_create(&t, NULL, &tfunc, NULL))
				pthread_join(t, NULL);
		}
	}

slabtop shows that pid/proc_inode_cache/etc grow quickly and
"indefinitely" until the task is killed or shrink_slab() is called, not
good.  And the main thread needs a lot of time to exit.

The same can happen if something like "ps -efL" runs continuously, while
some application spawns short-living threads.

Reported-by: "James M. Leddy" <jleddy@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dominic Duval <dduval@redhat.com>
Cc: Frank Hirtz <fhirtz@redhat.com>
Cc: "Fuller, Johnray" <Johnray.Fuller@gs.com>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Batkowski <pbatkowski@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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