exit: release_task: fix the comment about group leader accounting

Contrary to what the comment in __exit_signal() says we do account the
group leader. Fix this and explain why.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Sterling Alexander <stalexan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov 2014-12-10 15:54:54 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 986094dfe1
commit 26e75b5c3d
1 changed files with 4 additions and 7 deletions

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@ -118,13 +118,10 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
}
/*
* Accumulate here the counters for all threads but the group leader
* as they die, so they can be added into the process-wide totals
* when those are taken. The group leader stays around as a zombie as
* long as there are other threads. When it gets reaped, the exit.c
* code will add its counts into these totals. We won't ever get here
* for the group leader, since it will have been the last reference on
* the signal_struct.
* Accumulate here the counters for all threads as they die. We could
* skip the group leader because it is the last user of signal_struct,
* but we want to avoid the race with thread_group_cputime() which can
* see the empty ->thread_head list.
*/
task_cputime(tsk, &utime, &stime);
write_seqlock(&sig->stats_lock);