[PATCH] shm: optimize exit_shm()

From: Vasiliy Kulikov
Date: Wed Aug 03 2011 - 14:28:40 EST


We may check .in_use == 0 without holding the rw_mutex as .in_use is int
and reads of ints are atomic. As .in_use may be changed to zero while current
process was sleeping in down_write(), we should check .in_use once again after
down_write().

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
ipc/shm.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c
index 4e3c883..855ddc0 100644
--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -304,6 +304,9 @@ void exit_shm(struct task_struct *task)
{
struct ipc_namespace *ns = task->nsproxy->ipc_ns;

+ if (shm_ids(ns).in_use == 0)
+ return;
+
/* Destroy all already created segments, but not mapped yet */
down_write(&shm_ids(ns).rw_mutex);
if (shm_ids(ns).in_use)
--
1.7.0.4

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