The quilt patch titled
Subject: signal: avoid clearing TIF_SIGPENDING in recalc_sigpending() if unset
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
signal-avoid-clearing-tif_sigpending-in-recalc_sigpending-if-unset.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
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From: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: signal: avoid clearing TIF_SIGPENDING in recalc_sigpending() if unset
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 14:49:08 +0100
Clearing is an atomic op and the flag is not set most of the time.
When creating and destroying threads in the same process with the pthread
family, the primary bottleneck is calls to sigprocmask which take the
process-wide sighand lock.
Avoiding the atomic gives me a 2% bump in start/teardown rate at 24-core
scale.
[akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: add unlikely() as well]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303134908.423242-1-mjguzik@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/signal.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/signal.c~signal-avoid-clearing-tif_sigpending-in-recalc_sigpending-if-unset
+++ a/kernel/signal.c
@@ -176,9 +176,10 @@ static bool recalc_sigpending_tsk(struct
void recalc_sigpending(void)
{
- if (!recalc_sigpending_tsk(current) && !freezing(current))
- clear_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING);
-
+ if (!recalc_sigpending_tsk(current) && !freezing(current)) {
+ if (unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING)))
+ clear_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING);
+ }
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(recalc_sigpending);
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from mjguzik@xxxxxxxxx are
