[PATCH 2/2] mm: call complete_vfork_done() after clearing child_tidand flushing rss-counters

From: Konstantin Khlebnikov
Date: Thu Apr 12 2012 - 04:10:06 EST


Child should wake ups parent from vfork() only after finishing all operations with
shared mm. There is no sense to use CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID together with CLONE_VFORK,
but it looks more accurate now.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/fork.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 326bb5b..f10ac1d 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -728,9 +728,6 @@ void mm_release(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
/* Get rid of any cached register state */
deactivate_mm(tsk, mm);

- if (tsk->vfork_done)
- complete_vfork_done(tsk);
-
/*
* If we're exiting normally, clear a user-space tid field if
* requested. We leave this alone when dying by signal, to leave
@@ -759,6 +756,13 @@ void mm_release(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
*/
if (mm)
sync_mm_rss(mm);
+
+ /*
+ * All done, finally we can wake up parent and return this mm to him.
+ * Also kthread_stop() uses this completion for synchronization.
+ */
+ if (tsk->vfork_done)
+ complete_vfork_done(tsk);
}

/*

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