The patch titled signal: introduce retarget_shared_pending() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is signal-introduce-retarget_shared_pending.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://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/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: signal: introduce retarget_shared_pending() From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> No functional changes. Move the notyfy-other-threads code from exit_signals() to the new helper, retarget_shared_pending(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <nyoushchenko@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/signal.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/signal.c~signal-introduce-retarget_shared_pending kernel/signal.c --- a/kernel/signal.c~signal-introduce-retarget_shared_pending +++ a/kernel/signal.c @@ -2198,10 +2198,25 @@ relock: return signr; } +/* + * It could be that complete_signal() picked us to notify about the + * group-wide signal. Another thread should be notified now to take + * the signal since we will not. + */ +static void retarget_shared_pending(struct task_struct *tsk) +{ + struct task_struct *t; + + t = tsk; + while_each_thread(tsk, t) { + if (!signal_pending(t) && !(t->flags & PF_EXITING)) + recalc_sigpending_and_wake(t); + } +} + void exit_signals(struct task_struct *tsk) { int group_stop = 0; - struct task_struct *t; if (thread_group_empty(tsk) || signal_group_exit(tsk->signal)) { tsk->flags |= PF_EXITING; @@ -2217,14 +2232,7 @@ void exit_signals(struct task_struct *ts if (!signal_pending(tsk)) goto out; - /* - * It could be that __group_complete_signal() choose us to - * notify about group-wide signal. Another thread should be - * woken now to take the signal since we will not. - */ - for (t = tsk; (t = next_thread(t)) != tsk; ) - if (!signal_pending(t) && !(t->flags & PF_EXITING)) - recalc_sigpending_and_wake(t); + retarget_shared_pending(tsk); if (unlikely(tsk->group_stop & GROUP_STOP_PENDING) && task_participate_group_stop(tsk)) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch signal-introduce-retarget_shared_pending.patch signal-retarget_shared_pending-consider-shared-unblocked-signals-only.patch signal-sigprocmask-narrow-the-scope-of-sigloc.patch signal-sigprocmask-should-do-retarget_shared_pending.patch x86-signal-handle_signal-should-use-sigprocmask.patch x86-signal-sys_rt_sigreturn-should-use-sigprocmask.patch fs-execc-provide-the-correct-process-pid-to-the-pipe-helper.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