From 6d69cb87f05eef3b02370b2f7bae608ad2301a00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 16:58:12 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] ptrace: simplify ptrace_exit()->ignoring_children() path ignoring_children() takes parent->sighand->siglock and checks k_sigaction[SIGCHLD] atomically. But this buys nothing, we can't get the "really" wrong result even if we race with sigaction(SIGCHLD). If we read the "stale" sa_handler/sa_flags we can pretend it was changed right after the check. Remove spin_lock(->siglock), and kill "int ign" which caches the result of ignoring_children() which becomes rather trivial. Perhaps it makes sense to export this helper, do_notify_parent() can use it too. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Jerome Marchand Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Denys Vlasenko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed