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[PATCH] proc: Rewrite the proc dentry flush on exit optimization

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To keep the dcache from filling up with dead /proc entries we flush them on
process exit.  However over the years that code has gotten hairy with a
dentry_pointer and a lock in task_struct and misdocumented as a correctness
feature.

I have rewritten this code to look and see if we have a corresponding entry in
the dcache and if so flush it on process exit.  This removes the extra fields
in the task_struct and allows me to trivially handle the case of a
/proc/<tgid>/task/<pid> entry as well as the current /proc/<pid> entries.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-26 00:25:48 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 662795deb8
commit 48e6484d49
7 changed files with 65 additions and 101 deletions
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include/linux/init_task.h
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@ -119,7 +119,6 @@ extern struct group_info init_groups;
.signal = {{0}}}, \
.blocked = {{0}}, \
.alloc_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED, \
.proc_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED, \
.journal_info = NULL, \
.cpu_timers = INIT_CPU_TIMERS(tsk.cpu_timers), \
.fs_excl = ATOMIC_INIT(0), \