commit a98b6094261c0112e9c455c96995972181bff049
author Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Sat Oct 28 10:38:54 2006 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> Sat Oct 28 11:30:54 2006 -0700
tree 01a15d79e331730de5a255a7109cf1318b95f6ac
parent b8534d7bd89df0cd41cd47bcd6733a05ea9a691a

[PATCH] taskstats: don't use tasklist_lock

Remove tasklist_lock from taskstats.c. find_task_by_pid() is rcu-safe.
->siglock allows us to traverse subthread without tasklist.

Q: delay accounting looks wrong to me.  If sub-thread has already called
taskstats_exit_send() but didn't call release_task(self) yet it will be
accounted twice.  The window is big.  No?

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>