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[v6,1/5] exit: perform add_device_randomness() without tasklist_lock

Message ID 20250206164415.450051-2-mjguzik@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series reduce tasklist_lock hold time on exit and do some pid cleanup | expand

Commit Message

Mateusz Guzik Feb. 6, 2025, 4:44 p.m. UTC 
Parallel calls to add_device_randomness() contend on their own.

The clone side aleady runs outside of tasklist_lock, which in turn means
any caller on the exit side extends the tasklist_lock hold time while
contending on the random-private lock.

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
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 kernel/exit.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 3485e5fc499e..9d7acd7b0040 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -174,9 +174,6 @@  static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
 			sig->curr_target = next_thread(tsk);
 	}
 
-	add_device_randomness((const void*) &tsk->se.sum_exec_runtime,
-			      sizeof(unsigned long long));
-
 	/*
 	 * Accumulate here the counters for all threads as they die. We could
 	 * skip the group leader because it is the last user of signal_struct,
@@ -278,6 +275,8 @@  void release_task(struct task_struct *p)
 	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
 	proc_flush_pid(thread_pid);
 	put_pid(thread_pid);
+	add_device_randomness(&p->se.sum_exec_runtime,
+			      sizeof(p->se.sum_exec_runtime));
 	release_thread(p);
 	put_task_struct_rcu_user(p);