Paul Menage wrote:
> From: Ben Blum <[email protected]>
> 
> 
> Adds functionality to read/write lock CLONE_THREAD fork()ing per-threadgroup
> 
> This patch adds an rwsem that lives in a threadgroup's sighand_struct (next to
> the sighand's atomic count, to piggyback on its cacheline), and two functions
> in kernel/cgroup.c (for now) for easily+safely obtaining and releasing it. If
> another part of the kernel later wants to use such a locking mechanism, the
> CONFIG_CGROUPS ifdefs should be changed to a higher-up flag that CGROUPS and
> the other system would both depend on, and the lock/unlock functions could be
> moved to sched.c or so.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <[email protected]>
>

Looks fine to me.

Acked-by: Li Zefan <[email protected]>

... 

> +struct sighand_struct *threadgroup_fork_lock(struct task_struct *tsk)
> +{
> +     struct sighand_struct *sighand;
> +     struct task_struct *p;
> +
> +     /* tasklist lock protects sighand_struct's disappearance in exit(). */
> +     read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
> +     if (likely(tsk->sighand)) {
> +             /* simple case - check the thread we were given first */
> +             sighand = tsk->sighand;
> +     } else {
> +             sighand = NULL;
> +             /*
> +              * tsk is exiting; try to find another thread in the group
> +              * whose sighand pointer is still alive.
> +              */
> +             rcu_read_lock();

since we are holding tasklist_lock, I think we don't need to
take rcu lock?

> +             list_for_each_entry_rcu(p, &tsk->thread_group, thread_group) {
> +                     if (p->sighand) {
> +                             sighand = tsk->sighand;

s/tsk->sighand/p->sighand

> +                             break;
> +                     }
> +             }
> +             rcu_read_unlock();
> +     }
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