Re: [RFC PATCH] getrusage: Use trylock when getting sighand lock.

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 01/17, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Heh ;)
>
> getrusage() should not use ->siglock at all.
>
> On my TODO list. I'll try to make a patch this week.

something like below...

I need to re-check this change, split it into 2 patches, and write
the changelogs. Hopefully tomorrow.

Oleg.
---

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index e219fcfa112d..0728744a90a6 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1785,21 +1785,24 @@ void getrusage(struct task_struct *p, int who, struct rusage *r)
 	struct task_struct *t;
 	unsigned long flags;
 	u64 tgutime, tgstime, utime, stime;
-	unsigned long maxrss = 0;
+	unsigned long maxrss;
+	struct mm_struct *mm;
 	struct signal_struct *sig = p->signal;
+	unsigned int seq = 0;
 
+retry:
 	memset((char *)r, 0, sizeof (*r));
 	utime = stime = 0;
+	maxrss = 0;
 
 	if (who == RUSAGE_THREAD) {
 		task_cputime_adjusted(current, &utime, &stime);
 		accumulate_thread_rusage(p, r);
 		maxrss = sig->maxrss;
-		goto out;
+		goto out_thread;
 	}
 
-	if (!lock_task_sighand(p, &flags))
-		return;
+	flags = read_seqbegin_or_lock_irqsave(&sig->stats_lock, &seq);
 
 	switch (who) {
 	case RUSAGE_BOTH:
@@ -1819,9 +1822,6 @@ void getrusage(struct task_struct *p, int who, struct rusage *r)
 		fallthrough;
 
 	case RUSAGE_SELF:
-		thread_group_cputime_adjusted(p, &tgutime, &tgstime);
-		utime += tgutime;
-		stime += tgstime;
 		r->ru_nvcsw += sig->nvcsw;
 		r->ru_nivcsw += sig->nivcsw;
 		r->ru_minflt += sig->min_flt;
@@ -1830,28 +1830,42 @@ void getrusage(struct task_struct *p, int who, struct rusage *r)
 		r->ru_oublock += sig->oublock;
 		if (maxrss < sig->maxrss)
 			maxrss = sig->maxrss;
+
+		rcu_read_lock();
 		__for_each_thread(sig, t)
 			accumulate_thread_rusage(t, r);
+		rcu_read_unlock();
+
 		break;
 
 	default:
 		BUG();
 	}
-	unlock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
 
-out:
-	r->ru_utime = ns_to_kernel_old_timeval(utime);
-	r->ru_stime = ns_to_kernel_old_timeval(stime);
+	if (need_seqretry(&sig->stats_lock, seq)) {
+		seq = 1;
+		goto retry;
+	}
+	done_seqretry_irqrestore(&sig->stats_lock, seq, flags);
 
-	if (who != RUSAGE_CHILDREN) {
-		struct mm_struct *mm = get_task_mm(p);
+	if (who == RUSAGE_CHILDREN)
+		goto done;
 
-		if (mm) {
-			setmax_mm_hiwater_rss(&maxrss, mm);
-			mmput(mm);
-		}
+	thread_group_cputime_adjusted(p, &tgutime, &tgstime);
+	utime += tgutime;
+	stime += tgstime;
+
+out_thread:
+	mm = get_task_mm(p);
+	if (mm) {
+		setmax_mm_hiwater_rss(&maxrss, mm);
+		mmput(mm);
 	}
+
+done:
 	r->ru_maxrss = maxrss * (PAGE_SIZE / 1024); /* convert pages to KBs */
+	r->ru_utime = ns_to_kernel_old_timeval(utime);
+	r->ru_stime = ns_to_kernel_old_timeval(stime);
 }
 
 SYSCALL_DEFINE2(getrusage, int, who, struct rusage __user *, ru)