[PATCH] taskstats: kill ->taskstats_lock in favor of ->siglock

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signal_struct is (mostly) protected by ->sighand->siglock, I think we don't
need ->taskstats_lock to protect ->stats.  This also allows us to simplify the
locking in fill_tgid().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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Oleg Nesterov 2006-10-28 10:38:53 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds

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