posix-timers: use "struct pid*" instead of "struct task_struct*"
Impact: restructure, clean up code
k_itimer holds the ref to the ->it_process until sys_timer_delete(). This
allows to pin up to RLIMIT_SIGPENDING dead task_struct's. Change the code
to use "struct pid *" instead.
The patch doesn't kill ->it_process, it places ->it_pid into the union.
->it_process is still used by do_cpu_nanosleep() as before. It would be
trivial to change the nanosleep code as well, but since it uses it_process
in a special way I think it is better to keep this field for grep.
The patch bloats the kernel by 104 bytes and it also adds the new pointer,
->it_signal, to k_itimer. It is used by lock_timer() to verify that the
found timer was not created by another process. It is not clear why do we
use the global database (and thus the global idr_lock) for posix timers.
We still need the signal_struct->posix_timers which contains all useable
timers, perhaps it is better to use some form of per-process array
instead.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
diff --git a/include/linux/posix-timers.h b/include/linux/posix-timers.h
index a7c7213..4f71bf4 100644
--- a/include/linux/posix-timers.h
+++ b/include/linux/posix-timers.h
@@ -45,7 +45,11 @@
int it_requeue_pending; /* waiting to requeue this timer */
#define REQUEUE_PENDING 1
int it_sigev_notify; /* notify word of sigevent struct */
- struct task_struct *it_process; /* process to send signal to */
+ struct signal_struct *it_signal;
+ union {
+ struct pid *it_pid; /* pid of process to send signal to */
+ struct task_struct *it_process; /* for clock_nanosleep */
+ };
struct sigqueue *sigq; /* signal queue entry. */
union {
struct {