wait: completely ignore the EXIT_DEAD tasks
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Mon, 7 Apr 2014 22:38:45 +0000 (15:38 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 7 Apr 2014 23:36:06 +0000 (16:36 -0700)
Now that EXIT_DEAD is the terminal state it doesn't make sense to call
eligible_child() or security_task_wait() if the task is really dead.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/exit.c

index 4773ed990907c0a08ab96ea508d1fd4c62882aa9..33cf8dba0a61b4a2570260d240c613494d9f145d 100644 (file)
@@ -1329,7 +1329,12 @@ static int wait_task_continued(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *p)
 static int wait_consider_task(struct wait_opts *wo, int ptrace,
                                struct task_struct *p)
 {
-       int ret = eligible_child(wo, p);
+       int ret;
+
+       if (unlikely(p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD))
+               return 0;
+
+       ret = eligible_child(wo, p);
        if (!ret)
                return ret;
 
@@ -1347,10 +1352,6 @@ static int wait_consider_task(struct wait_opts *wo, int ptrace,
                return 0;
        }
 
-       /* dead body doesn't have much to contribute */
-       if (unlikely(p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD))
-               return 0;
-
        if (unlikely(p->exit_state == EXIT_TRACE)) {
                /*
                 * ptrace == 0 means we are the natural parent. In this case