patches/signals-allow-rt-tasks-to-cache-one-sigqueue-struct.patch

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:44:56 -0500
Subject: signals: Allow rt tasks to cache one sigqueue struct

To avoid allocation allow rt tasks to cache one sigqueue struct in
task struct.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

---
 include/linux/sched.h  |    1 
 include/linux/signal.h |    1 
 kernel/exit.c          |    2 -
 kernel/fork.c          |    1 
 kernel/signal.c        |   83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 5 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1408,6 +1408,7 @@ struct task_struct {
 /* signal handlers */
 	struct signal_struct *signal;
 	struct sighand_struct *sighand;
+	struct sigqueue *sigqueue_cache;
 
 	sigset_t blocked, real_blocked;
 	sigset_t saved_sigmask;	/* restored if set_restore_sigmask() was used */
--- a/include/linux/signal.h
+++ b/include/linux/signal.h
@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ static inline void init_sigpending(struc
 }
 
 extern void flush_sigqueue(struct sigpending *queue);
+extern void flush_task_sigqueue(struct task_struct *tsk);
 
 /* Test if 'sig' is valid signal. Use this instead of testing _NSIG directly */
 static inline int valid_signal(unsigned long sig)
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_st
 	 * Do this under ->siglock, we can race with another thread
 	 * doing sigqueue_free() if we have SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC signals.
 	 */
-	flush_sigqueue(&tsk->pending);
+	flush_task_sigqueue(tsk);
 	tsk->sighand = NULL;
 	spin_unlock(&sighand->siglock);
 
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1230,6 +1230,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(
 	spin_lock_init(&p->alloc_lock);
 
 	init_sigpending(&p->pending);
+	p->sigqueue_cache = NULL;
 
 	p->utime = p->stime = p->gtime = 0;
 	p->utimescaled = p->stimescaled = 0;
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -348,13 +348,45 @@ static bool task_participate_group_stop(
 	return false;
 }
 
+#ifdef __HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG
+static inline struct sigqueue *get_task_cache(struct task_struct *t)
+{
+	struct sigqueue *q = t->sigqueue_cache;
+
+	if (cmpxchg(&t->sigqueue_cache, q, NULL) != q)
+		return NULL;
+	return q;
+}
+
+static inline int put_task_cache(struct task_struct *t, struct sigqueue *q)
+{
+	if (cmpxchg(&t->sigqueue_cache, NULL, q) == NULL)
+		return 0;
+	return 1;
+}
+
+#else
+
+static inline struct sigqueue *get_task_cache(struct task_struct *t)
+{
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+static inline int put_task_cache(struct task_struct *t, struct sigqueue *q)
+{
+	return 1;
+}
+
+#endif
+
 /*
  * allocate a new signal queue record
  * - this may be called without locks if and only if t == current, otherwise an
  *   appropriate lock must be held to stop the target task from exiting
  */
 static struct sigqueue *
-__sigqueue_alloc(int sig, struct task_struct *t, gfp_t flags, int override_rlimit)
+__sigqueue_do_alloc(int sig, struct task_struct *t, gfp_t flags,
+		    int override_rlimit, int fromslab)
 {
 	struct sigqueue *q = NULL;
 	struct user_struct *user;
@@ -371,7 +403,10 @@ __sigqueue_alloc(int sig, struct task_st
 	if (override_rlimit ||
 	    atomic_read(&user->sigpending) <=
 			task_rlimit(t, RLIMIT_SIGPENDING)) {
-		q = kmem_cache_alloc(sigqueue_cachep, flags);
+		if (!fromslab)
+			q = get_task_cache(t);
+		if (!q)
+			q = kmem_cache_alloc(sigqueue_cachep, flags);
 	} else {
 		print_dropped_signal(sig);
 	}
@@ -388,6 +423,13 @@ __sigqueue_alloc(int sig, struct task_st
 	return q;
 }
 
+static struct sigqueue *
+__sigqueue_alloc(int sig, struct task_struct *t, gfp_t flags,
+		 int override_rlimit)
+{
+	return __sigqueue_do_alloc(sig, t, flags, override_rlimit, 0);
+}
+
 static void __sigqueue_free(struct sigqueue *q)
 {
 	if (q->flags & SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC)
@@ -397,6 +439,21 @@ static void __sigqueue_free(struct sigqu
 	kmem_cache_free(sigqueue_cachep, q);
 }
 
+static void sigqueue_free_current(struct sigqueue *q)
+{
+	struct user_struct *up;
+
+	if (q->flags & SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC)
+		return;
+
+	up = q->user;
+	if (rt_prio(current->normal_prio) && !put_task_cache(current, q)) {
+		atomic_dec(&up->sigpending);
+		free_uid(up);
+	} else
+		  __sigqueue_free(q);
+}
+
 void flush_sigqueue(struct sigpending *queue)
 {
 	struct sigqueue *q;
@@ -410,6 +467,21 @@ void flush_sigqueue(struct sigpending *q
 }
 
 /*
+ * Called from __exit_signal. Flush tsk->pending and
+ * tsk->sigqueue_cache
+ */
+void flush_task_sigqueue(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+	struct sigqueue *q;
+
+	flush_sigqueue(&tsk->pending);
+
+	q = get_task_cache(tsk);
+	if (q)
+		kmem_cache_free(sigqueue_cachep, q);
+}
+
+/*
  * Flush all pending signals for a task.
  */
 void __flush_signals(struct task_struct *t)
@@ -561,7 +633,7 @@ static void collect_signal(int sig, stru
 still_pending:
 		list_del_init(&first->list);
 		copy_siginfo(info, &first->info);
-		__sigqueue_free(first);
+		sigqueue_free_current(first);
 	} else {
 		/*
 		 * Ok, it wasn't in the queue.  This must be
@@ -607,6 +679,8 @@ int dequeue_signal(struct task_struct *t
 {
 	int signr;
 
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(tsk != current);
+
 	/* We only dequeue private signals from ourselves, we don't let
 	 * signalfd steal them
 	 */
@@ -1545,7 +1619,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kill_pid);
  */
 struct sigqueue *sigqueue_alloc(void)
 {
-	struct sigqueue *q = __sigqueue_alloc(-1, current, GFP_KERNEL, 0);
+	/* Preallocated sigqueue objects always from the slabcache ! */
+	struct sigqueue *q = __sigqueue_do_alloc(-1, current, GFP_KERNEL, 0, 1);
 
 	if (q)
 		q->flags |= SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC;