linux/include
Shailabh Nagar 35df17c57c [PATCH] task delay accounting fixes
Cleanup allocation and freeing of tsk->delays used by delay accounting.
This solves two problems reported for delay accounting:

1. oops in __delayacct_blkio_ticks
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.2/1844.html

Currently tsk->delays is getting freed too early in task exit which can
cause a NULL tsk->delays to get accessed via reading of /proc/<tgid>/stats.
 The patch fixes this problem by freeing tsk->delays closer to when
task_struct itself is freed up.  As a result, it also eliminates the use of
tsk->delays_lock which was only being used (inadequately) to safeguard
access to tsk->delays while a task was exiting.

2. Possible memory leak in kernel/delayacct.c
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.2/1389.html

The patch cleans up tsk->delays allocations after a bad fork which was
missing earlier.

The patch has been tested to fix the problems listed above and stress
tested with rapid calls to delay accounting's taskstats command interface
(which is the other path that can access the same data, besides the /proc
interface causing the oops above).

Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:08 -07:00
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acpi Pull acpi_os_allocate into test branch 2006-07-10 02:39:47 -04:00
asm-alpha [PATCH] remove set_wmb - arch removal 2006-07-14 21:56:14 -07:00
asm-arm Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2006-08-28 20:19:16 -07:00
asm-arm26 [PATCH] remove set_wmb - arch removal 2006-07-14 21:56:14 -07:00
asm-cris [PATCH] remove set_wmb - arch removal 2006-07-14 21:56:14 -07:00
asm-frv [PATCH] remove set_wmb - arch removal 2006-07-14 21:56:14 -07:00
asm-generic [PATCH] hdrinstall: remove asm/io.h from user visibility 2006-07-14 21:53:52 -07:00
asm-h8300 [PATCH] remove set_wmb - arch removal 2006-07-14 21:56:14 -07:00
asm-i386 [PATCH] i386: rwlock.h fix smp alternatives fix 2006-08-31 10:46:07 -07:00
asm-ia64 [IA64] remove redundant local_irq_save() calls from sn_sal.h 2006-08-29 10:17:21 -07:00
asm-m32r [PATCH] remove set_wmb - arch removal 2006-07-14 21:56:14 -07:00
asm-m68k [SPARC]: Kill prom_getname, unused and not implemented properly. 2006-07-21 14:17:55 -07:00
asm-m68knommu [PATCH] remove set_wmb - arch removal 2006-07-14 21:56:14 -07:00
asm-mips [PATCH] remove set_wmb - arch removal 2006-07-14 21:56:14 -07:00
asm-parisc [PATCH] remove set_wmb - arch removal 2006-07-14 21:56:14 -07:00
asm-powerpc [PATCH] ppc32: fix last_jiffy time comparison 2006-08-30 21:21:55 -07:00
asm-ppc [PATCH] ppc32: board-specific part of fs_enet update 2006-08-19 17:44:31 -04:00
asm-s390 [S390] get_clock inline assembly. 2006-07-17 16:09:42 +02:00
asm-sh [PATCH] remove set_wmb - arch removal 2006-07-14 21:56:14 -07:00
asm-sh64 [PATCH] remove set_wmb - arch removal 2006-07-14 21:56:14 -07:00
asm-sparc [SPARC]: Fix SA_STATIC_ALLOC value. 2006-07-24 22:34:00 -07:00
asm-sparc64 [SPARC64]: Fix pfn_pte() build failure. 2006-08-22 14:35:40 -07:00
asm-um Merge git://git.infradead.org/hdrinstall-2.6 2006-07-04 12:55:45 -07:00
asm-v850 [PATCH] remove set_wmb - arch removal 2006-07-14 21:56:14 -07:00
asm-x86_64 [PATCH] x86_64: Save original IST values for checking stack addresses 2006-08-30 16:05:16 -07:00
asm-xtensa [PATCH] remove set_wmb - arch removal 2006-07-14 21:56:14 -07:00
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linux [PATCH] task delay accounting fixes 2006-09-01 11:39:08 -07:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (4340): Videodev.h should be included also when V4L1_COMPAT is selected. 2006-08-08 13:54:12 -03:00
mtd Merge git://git.infradead.org/hdrinstall-2.6 2006-07-04 12:55:45 -07:00
net Fix sctp privilege elevation (CVE-2006-3745) 2006-08-22 12:52:23 -07:00
pcmcia
rdma IB/mad: Validate MADs for spec compliance 2006-07-24 09:18:07 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi [SCSI] iscsi bugfixes: reduce memory allocations 2006-07-28 11:49:34 -05:00
sound [ALSA] Fix section mismatch errors in ALSA PCI drivers 2006-07-12 20:08:01 +02:00
video [PATCH] mbxfb: Add framebuffer driver for the Intel 2700G 2006-07-14 21:53:55 -07:00
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