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Ingo Molnar authored
This is the latest version of the generic pidhash patch. The biggest change is the removal of separately allocated pid structures: they are now part of the task structure and the first task that uses a PID will provide the pid structure. Task refcounting is used to avoid the freeing of the task structure before every member of a process group or session has exited. This approach has a number of advantages besides the performance gains. Besides simplifying the whole hashing code significantly, attach_pid() is now fundamentally atomic and can be called during create_process() without worrying about task-list side-effects. It does not have to re-search the pidhash to find out about raced PID-adding either, and attach_pid() cannot fail due to OOM. detach_pid() can do a simple put_task_struct() instead of the kmem_cache_free(). The only minimal downside is the potential pending task structures after session leaders or group leaders have exited - but the number of orphan sessions and process groups is usually very low - and even if it's higher, this can be regarded as a slow execution of the final deallocation of the session leader, not some additional burden.
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