The patch titled coredump: construct the list of coredumping threads at startup time has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is coredump-construct-the-list-of-coredumping-threads-at-startup-time.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: coredump: construct the list of coredumping threads at startup time From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> binfmt->core_dump() has to iterate over the all threads in system in order to find the coredumping threads and construct the list using the GFP_ATOMIC allocations. With this patch each thread allocates the list node on exit_mm()'s stack and adds itself to the list. This allows us to do further changes: - simplify ->core_dump() - change exit_mm() to clear ->mm first, then wait for ->core_done. this makes the coredumping process visible to oom_kill - kill mm->core_done Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/exec.c | 2 ++ include/linux/mm_types.h | 6 ++++++ kernel/exit.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/exec.c~coredump-construct-the-list-of-coredumping-threads-at-startup-time fs/exec.c --- a/fs/exec.c~coredump-construct-the-list-of-coredumping-threads-at-startup-time +++ a/fs/exec.c @@ -1604,6 +1604,8 @@ static int coredump_wait(int exit_code, init_completion(&mm->core_done); init_completion(&core_state->startup); + core_state->dumper.task = tsk; + core_state->dumper.next = NULL; core_waiters = zap_threads(tsk, mm, core_state, exit_code); up_write(&mm->mmap_sem); diff -puN include/linux/mm_types.h~coredump-construct-the-list-of-coredumping-threads-at-startup-time include/linux/mm_types.h --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h~coredump-construct-the-list-of-coredumping-threads-at-startup-time +++ a/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -164,8 +164,14 @@ struct vm_area_struct { #endif }; +struct core_thread { + struct task_struct *task; + struct core_thread *next; +}; + struct core_state { atomic_t nr_threads; + struct core_thread dumper; struct completion startup; }; diff -puN kernel/exit.c~coredump-construct-the-list-of-coredumping-threads-at-startup-time kernel/exit.c --- a/kernel/exit.c~coredump-construct-the-list-of-coredumping-threads-at-startup-time +++ a/kernel/exit.c @@ -651,6 +651,7 @@ assign_new_owner: static void exit_mm(struct task_struct * tsk) { struct mm_struct *mm = tsk->mm; + struct core_state *core_state; mm_release(tsk, mm); if (!mm) @@ -663,11 +664,19 @@ static void exit_mm(struct task_struct * * group with ->mm != NULL. */ down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - if (mm->core_state) { + core_state = mm->core_state; + if (core_state) { + struct core_thread self; up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - if (atomic_dec_and_test(&mm->core_state->nr_threads)) - complete(&mm->core_state->startup); + self.task = tsk; + self.next = xchg(&core_state->dumper.next, &self); + /* + * Implies mb(), the result of xchg() must be visible + * to core_state->dumper. + */ + if (atomic_dec_and_test(&core_state->nr_threads)) + complete(&core_state->startup); wait_for_completion(&mm->core_done); down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch migrate_timers-add-comment-use-spinlock_irq.patch pm-introduce-new-interfaces-schedule_work_on-and-queue_work_on.patch pm-introduce-new-interfaces-schedule_work_on-and-queue_work_on-cleanup.patch posix-timers-timer_delete-remove-the-bogus-it_process-=-null-check.patch posix-timers-release_posix_timer-kill-the-bogus-put_task_struct-it_process.patch signals-collect_signal-remove-the-unneeded-sigismember-check.patch signals-collect_signal-simplify-the-still_pending-logic.patch signals-change-collect_signal-to-return-void.patch __exit_signal-dont-take-rcu-lock.patch signals-dequeue_signal-dont-check-signal_group_exit-when-setting-signal_stop_dequeued.patch signals-do_signal_stop-kill-the-signal_unkillable-check.patch coredump-zap_threads-comments-use-while_each_thread.patch signals-make-siginfo_t-si_utime-si_sstime-report-times-in-user_hz-not-hz.patch kernel-signalc-change-vars-pid-and-tgid-types-to-pid_t.patch include-asm-ptraceh-userspace-headers-cleanup.patch ptrace-give-more-respect-to-sigkill.patch ptrace-simplify-ptrace_stop-sigkill_pending-path.patch introduce-pf_kthread-flag.patch kill-pf_borrowed_mm-in-favour-of-pf_kthread.patch coredump-zap_threads-must-skip-kernel-threads.patch coredump-elf_core_dump-skip-kernel-threads.patch coredump-turn-mm-core_startup_done-into-the-pointer-to-struct-core_state.patch coredump-move-mm-core_waiters-into-struct-core_state.patch coredump-simplify-core_state-nr_threads-calculation.patch coredump-turn-core_state-nr_threads-into-atomic_t.patch coredump-make-mm-core_state-visible-to-core_dump.patch coredump-construct-the-list-of-coredumping-threads-at-startup-time.patch coredump-elf_core_dump-use-core_state-dumper-list.patch coredump-elf_fdpic_core_dump-use-core_state-dumper-list.patch coredump-kill-mm-core_done.patch workqueues-insert_work-use-list_head-instead-of-int-tail.patch workqueues-implement-flush_work.patch workqueues-schedule_on_each_cpu-use-flush_work.patch workqueues-make-get_online_cpus-useable-for-work-func.patch workqueues-make-get_online_cpus-useable-for-work-func-fix.patch s390-topology-dont-use-kthread-for-arch_reinit_sched_domains.patch workqueues-lockdep-annotations-for-flush_work.patch workqueues-queue_work-can-use-queue_work_on.patch workqueues-schedule_on_each_cpu-can-use-schedule_work_on.patch pidns-remove-now-unused-kill_proc-function.patch pidns-remove-now-unused-find_pid-function.patch pidns-remove-find_task_by_pid-unused-for-a-long-time.patch distinct-tgid-tid-i-o-statistics.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html