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| author | Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> | 2008-07-25 01:48:49 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-07-25 10:53:47 -0700 |
| commit | 0c18d7a5df82524e634637c3aec24d4cba096442 (patch) | |
| tree | 9b49f775403c77b8fe4d59f4d7c84d43e26e3f5b /kernel/acct.c | |
| parent | 7d1e13505be8c2bd2207894f4e0f069e1f9b51c9 (diff) | |
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bsdacct: fix and add comments around acct_process()
Fix the one describing what this function is and add one more - about
locking absence around pid namespaces loop.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/acct.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/acct.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/acct.c b/kernel/acct.c index 0feba97e114..dd68b905941 100644 --- a/kernel/acct.c +++ b/kernel/acct.c @@ -657,7 +657,8 @@ static void acct_process_in_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns) } /** - * acct_process - now just a wrapper around do_acct_process + * acct_process - now just a wrapper around acct_process_in_ns, + * which in turn is a wrapper around do_acct_process. * * handles process accounting for an exiting task */ @@ -665,6 +666,11 @@ void acct_process(void) { struct pid_namespace *ns; + /* + * This loop is safe lockless, since current is still + * alive and holds its namespace, which in turn holds + * its parent. + */ for (ns = task_active_pid_ns(current); ns != NULL; ns = ns->parent) acct_process_in_ns(ns); } |