On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 11:43:26PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Tue, 20 Aug 2019, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > No it can't do that throughout posix_cpu_timer_del() because exit_itimers() > can only look at current->signal->posix_timers which does not contain the > posix timers owned by a different task/process. > > We could of course invoke posix_cpu_timers_exit() from exit_itimers() but > does that buy anything? > > > It would make things more simple to delete the timer off the target from > > the same caller and place and we could remove posix_cpu_timers_exit*(). > > We can't. The foreign owned cpu timers are not in cur->signal->posix_timers > so how should we invoke posix_cpu_timer_del() on them. Only the owner task > can. The only thing the exiting task can do is to remove the foreign timer > from it's expiry list which has nothing to do with cur->signal->posix_timers.
That's exactly what I'm proposing. I think you're misunderstanding me. I want the owner to handle all the list deletion work from the target. Ok let's imagine a timer $ITIMER, owned by task $OWNER and whose target is task $TARGET. So it's enqueued on $OWNER->signal->posix_timers and $TARGET->cputime_expires. Two scenarios can happen: 1) $TARGET exits first and is released. So it calls posix_cpu_timers_exit() which deletes $ITIMER from $TARGET->cputime_expires. Later on, $OWNER exits and calls exit_itimers() -> timer_delete_hook($ITIMER) -> posix_cpu_timer_del($ITIMER). It finds $TARGET as the target of $ITIMER but no more sighand. So it returns. 2) $OWNER exits first and calls exit_itimer() -> timer_delete_hook($ITIMER) -> posix_cpu_timer_del($ITIMER). It finds $TARGET as the target of $ITIMER and it finds a sighand to lock. So it deletes $ITIMER from $TARGET->cputime_expires (see list_del(&timer->it.cpu.entry)). So I propose to change the behaviour of case 1) so that $TARGET doesn't call posix_cpu_timers_exit(). We instead wait for $OWNER to exit and call exit_itimers() -> timer_delete_hook($ITIMER) -> posix_cpu_timer_del($ITIMER). It is going to find $TARGET as the target of $ITIMER but no more sighand. Then finally it removes $ITIMER from $TARGET->cputime_expires. We basically do the same thing as in 2) but without locking sighand since it's NULL on $TARGET at this time. I hope I'm less confusing (if not confused). Thanks.