coredump: construct the list of coredumping threads at startup time
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:44 +0000 (01:47 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:53:40 +0000 (10:53 -0700)
commitb564daf806d492dd4f7afe9b6c83b8d35d137669
treefbd6d186035b9a0a270fca97887da5d6b106a60c
parent9d5b327bf198d2720666de958dcc2ae219d86952
coredump: construct the list of coredumping threads at startup time

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@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/exec.c
include/linux/mm_types.h
kernel/exit.c