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[PATCH] RCU signal handling
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:01:37 +0000 (01:01 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Mon, 9 Jan 2006 04:13:40 +0000 (20:13 -0800)
commite56d090310d7625ecb43a1eeebd479f04affb48b
tree2f479215dff4a2d8f3a9ed85200a5bc4f51534be
parent4369ef3c3e9d3bd9b879580678778f558d481e90
[PATCH] RCU signal handling

RCU tasklist_lock and RCU signal handling: send signals RCU-read-locked
instead of tasklist_lock read-locked.  This is a scalability improvement on
SMP and a preemption-latency improvement under PREEMPT_RCU.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
fs/exec.c
include/linux/sched.h
kernel/exit.c
kernel/fork.c
kernel/pid.c
kernel/rcupdate.c
kernel/sched.c
kernel/signal.c