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* [PATCH] MIPS: Use rcu to lookup a task in mipsmt_sys_sched_setaffinity()
@ 2020-08-31 20:14 Davidlohr Bueso
  2020-09-03  8:24 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Davidlohr Bueso @ 2020-08-31 20:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tsbogend; +Cc: oleg, linux-mips, linux-kernel, dave, Davidlohr Bueso

The call simply looks up the corresponding task (without iterating
the tasklist), which is safe under rcu instead of the tasklist_lock.
In addition, the setaffinity counter part already does this.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
---
 arch/mips/kernel/mips-mt-fpaff.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/mips-mt-fpaff.c b/arch/mips/kernel/mips-mt-fpaff.c
index 1a08428eedcf..6c590ef27648 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/mips-mt-fpaff.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/mips-mt-fpaff.c
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ asmlinkage long mipsmt_sys_sched_getaffinity(pid_t pid, unsigned int len,
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	get_online_cpus();
-	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_lock();
 
 	retval = -ESRCH;
 	p = find_process_by_pid(pid);
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ asmlinkage long mipsmt_sys_sched_getaffinity(pid_t pid, unsigned int len,
 	cpumask_and(&mask, &allowed, cpu_active_mask);
 
 out_unlock:
-	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 	put_online_cpus();
 	if (retval)
 		return retval;
-- 
2.26.2


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