From c5f1cc8c1828486a61ab3e575da6e2c62b34d399 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:47:42 -0700 Subject: coredump: turn core_state->nr_threads into atomic_t Turn core_state->nr_threads into atomic_t and kill now unneeded down_write(&mm->mmap_sem) in exit_mm(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/exit.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 988e232254e9..63d82957baae 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -678,10 +678,9 @@ static void exit_mm(struct task_struct * tsk) down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); if (mm->core_state) { up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - down_write(&mm->mmap_sem); - if (!--mm->core_state->nr_threads) + + if (atomic_dec_and_test(&mm->core_state->nr_threads)) complete(&mm->core_state->startup); - up_write(&mm->mmap_sem); wait_for_completion(&mm->core_done); down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); -- cgit v1.2.3