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proc_flush_task: flush /proc/tid/task/pid when a sub-thread exits

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The exiting sub-thread flushes /proc/pid only, but this doesn't buy too
much: ps and friends mostly use /proc/tid/task/pid.

Remove "if (thread_group_leader())" checks from proc_flush_task() path,
this means we always remove /proc/tid/task/pid dentry on exit, and this
actually matches the comment above proc_flush_task().

The test-case:

	static void* tfunc(void *arg)
	{
		char name[256];

		sprintf(name, "/proc/%d/task/%ld/status", getpid(), gettid());
		close(open(name, O_RDONLY));

		return NULL;
	}

	int main(void)
	{
		pthread_t t;

		for (;;) {
			if (!pthread_create(&t, NULL, &tfunc, NULL))
				pthread_join(t, NULL);
		}
	}

slabtop shows that pid/proc_inode_cache/etc grow quickly and
"indefinitely" until the task is killed or shrink_slab() is called, not
good.  And the main thread needs a lot of time to exit.

The same can happen if something like "ps -efL" runs continuously, while
some application spawns short-living threads.

Reported-by: "James M. Leddy" <jleddy@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dominic Duval <dduval@redhat.com>
Cc: Frank Hirtz <fhirtz@redhat.com>
Cc: "Fuller, Johnray" <Johnray.Fuller@gs.com>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Batkowski <pbatkowski@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@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 2009-09-22 16:45:34 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent cff4edb591
commit 9b4d1cbef8
1 changed files with 3 additions and 7 deletions
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fs/proc/base.c
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@ -2604,9 +2604,6 @@ static void proc_flush_task_mnt(struct vfsmount *mnt, pid_t pid, pid_t tgid)
dput(dentry);
}
if (tgid == 0)
goto out;
name.name = buf;
name.len = snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%d", tgid);
leader = d_hash_and_lookup(mnt->mnt_root, &name);
@ -2663,17 +2660,16 @@ static void proc_flush_task_mnt(struct vfsmount *mnt, pid_t pid, pid_t tgid)
void proc_flush_task(struct task_struct *task)
{
int i;
struct pid *pid, *tgid = NULL;
struct pid *pid, *tgid;
struct upid *upid;
pid = task_pid(task);
if (thread_group_leader(task))
tgid = task_tgid(task);
for (i = 0; i <= pid->level; i++) {
upid = &pid->numbers[i];
proc_flush_task_mnt(upid->ns->proc_mnt, upid->nr,
tgid ? tgid->numbers[i].nr : 0);
tgid->numbers[i].nr);
}
upid = &pid->numbers[pid->level];