The quilt patch titled Subject: do_io_accounting: use sig->stats_lock has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was do_io_accounting-use-sig-stats_lock.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: do_io_accounting: use sig->stats_lock Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 17:34:05 +0200 Rather than lock_task_sighand(), sig->stats_lock was specifically designed for this type of use. This way the "if (whole)" branch runs lockless in the likely case. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231023153405.GA4639@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/base.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/fs/proc/base.c~do_io_accounting-use-sig-stats_lock +++ a/fs/proc/base.c @@ -2973,7 +2973,6 @@ static const struct file_operations proc static int do_io_accounting(struct task_struct *task, struct seq_file *m, int whole) { struct task_io_accounting acct; - unsigned long flags; int result; result = down_read_killable(&task->signal->exec_update_lock); @@ -2985,15 +2984,24 @@ static int do_io_accounting(struct task_ goto out_unlock; } - if (whole && lock_task_sighand(task, &flags)) { + if (whole) { struct signal_struct *sig = task->signal; struct task_struct *t; + unsigned int seq = 1; + unsigned long flags; - acct = sig->ioac; - __for_each_thread(sig, t) - task_io_accounting_add(&acct, &t->ioac); + rcu_read_lock(); + do { + seq++; /* 2 on the 1st/lockless path, otherwise odd */ + flags = read_seqbegin_or_lock_irqsave(&sig->stats_lock, &seq); - unlock_task_sighand(task, &flags); + acct = sig->ioac; + __for_each_thread(sig, t) + task_io_accounting_add(&acct, &t->ioac); + + } while (need_seqretry(&sig->stats_lock, seq)); + done_seqretry_irqrestore(&sig->stats_lock, seq, flags); + rcu_read_unlock(); } else { acct = task->ioac; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are