On 08/16, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> + do {
> + seq = nextseq;
> + read_seqbegin_or_lock(&sig->stats_lock, &seq);
> + times->utime = sig->utime;
> + times->stime = sig->stime;
> + times->sum_exec_runtime = sig->sum_sched_runtime;
> +
> + for_each_thread(tsk, t) {
> + task_cputime(t, &utime, &stime);
> + times->utime += utime;
> + times->stime += stime;
> + times->sum_exec_runtime += task_sched_runtime(t);
> + }
> + /* If lockless access failed, take the lock. */
> + nextseq = 1;
Yes, thanks, this answers my concerns.
Cough... can't resist, and I still think that we should take rcu_read_lock()
only around for_each_thread() and the patch expands the critical section for
no reason. But this is minor, I won't insist.
Oleg.
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