Re: [RFC] decrease tsk->signal->live before profile_task_exit

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Fri May 29 2020 - 14:05:27 EST


liuchao <liuchao173@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I want to dermine which thread is the last one to enter
> do_exit in profile_task_exit. But when a lot of threads
> exit, tsk->signal->live is not correct since it decrease
> after profile_task_exit.

I don't think that would be wise.

Any additional code before the sanity checks at the start of do_exit
seems like a bad idea.

We could probably move the decrement of tsk->signal->live a little
earlier, but not that much earlier in the function.

Does profile_task_exit even make sense that early in the code? If the
code is doing much of anything that is a completely inappopriate
placement of profile_task_exit.

Eric


> Signed-off-by: liuchao <liuchao173@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/exit.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
> index ce2a75bc0ade..1693764bc356 100644
> --- a/kernel/exit.c
> +++ b/kernel/exit.c
> @@ -708,6 +708,7 @@ void __noreturn do_exit(long code)
> struct task_struct *tsk = current;
> int group_dead;
>
> + group_dead = atomic_dec_and_test(&tsk->signal->live);
> profile_task_exit(tsk);
> kcov_task_exit(tsk);
>
> @@ -755,7 +756,6 @@ void __noreturn do_exit(long code)
> if (tsk->mm)
> sync_mm_rss(tsk->mm);
> acct_update_integrals(tsk);
> - group_dead = atomic_dec_and_test(&tsk->signal->live);
> if (group_dead) {
> /*
> * If the last thread of global init has exited, panic