tvec_base_t boot_tvec_bases;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(boot_tvec_bases);
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(tvec_base_t *, tvec_bases) = { &boot_tvec_bases };
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(tvec_base_t *, tvec_bases) = &boot_tvec_bases;
static inline void set_running_timer(tvec_base_t *base,
struct timer_list *timer)
* This function cascades all vectors and executes all expired timer
* vectors.
*/
-#define INDEX(N) (base->timer_jiffies >> (TVR_BITS + N * TVN_BITS)) & TVN_MASK
+#define INDEX(N) ((base->timer_jiffies >> (TVR_BITS + (N) * TVN_BITS)) & TVN_MASK)
static inline void __run_timers(tvec_base_t *base)
{
}
/*
- * Accessing ->group_leader->real_parent is not SMP-safe, it could
- * change from under us. However, rather than getting any lock
- * we can use an optimistic algorithm: get the parent
- * pid, and go back and check that the parent is still
- * the same. If it has changed (which is extremely unlikely
- * indeed), we just try again..
- *
- * NOTE! This depends on the fact that even if we _do_
- * get an old value of "parent", we can happily dereference
- * the pointer (it was and remains a dereferencable kernel pointer
- * no matter what): we just can't necessarily trust the result
- * until we know that the parent pointer is valid.
- *
- * NOTE2: ->group_leader never changes from under us.
+ * Accessing ->real_parent is not SMP-safe, it could
+ * change from under us. However, we can use a stale
+ * value of ->real_parent under rcu_read_lock(), see
+ * release_task()->call_rcu(delayed_put_task_struct).
*/
asmlinkage long sys_getppid(void)
{
int pid;
- struct task_struct *me = current;
- struct task_struct *parent;
- parent = me->group_leader->real_parent;
- for (;;) {
- pid = parent->tgid;
-#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT)
-{
- struct task_struct *old = parent;
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ pid = rcu_dereference(current->real_parent)->tgid;
+ rcu_read_unlock();
- /*
- * Make sure we read the pid before re-reading the
- * parent pointer:
- */
- smp_rmb();
- parent = me->group_leader->real_parent;
- if (old != parent)
- continue;
-}
-#endif
- break;
- }
return pid;
}