From 79be47ba85572c52eb2dde50c1cd49b32a9624e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: San Mehat Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 15:37:55 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] sched: Add a generic notifier when a task struct is about to be freed This patch adds a notifier which can be used by subsystems that may be interested in when a task has completely died and is about to have it's last resource freed. The Android lowmemory killer uses this to determine when a task it has killed has finally given up its goods. Signed-off-by: San Mehat --- include/linux/sched.h | 3 +++ kernel/fork.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 4ef452b..35895e3 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1754,6 +1754,9 @@ static inline void put_task_struct(struct task_struct *t) extern void task_times(struct task_struct *p, cputime_t *ut, cputime_t *st); extern void thread_group_times(struct task_struct *p, cputime_t *ut, cputime_t *st); +extern int task_free_register(struct notifier_block *n); +extern int task_free_unregister(struct notifier_block *n); + /* * Per process flags */ diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 0276c30..0900f2f 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -154,6 +154,9 @@ struct kmem_cache *vm_area_cachep; /* SLAB cache for mm_struct structures (tsk->mm) */ static struct kmem_cache *mm_cachep; +/* Notifier list called when a task struct is freed */ +static ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(task_free_notifier); + static void account_kernel_stack(struct thread_info *ti, int account) { struct zone *zone = page_zone(virt_to_page(ti)); @@ -185,6 +188,18 @@ static inline void put_signal_struct(struct signal_struct *sig) free_signal_struct(sig); } +int task_free_register(struct notifier_block *n) +{ + return atomic_notifier_chain_register(&task_free_notifier, n); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(task_free_register); + +int task_free_unregister(struct notifier_block *n) +{ + return atomic_notifier_chain_unregister(&task_free_notifier, n); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(task_free_unregister); + void __put_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk) { WARN_ON(!tsk->exit_state); @@ -195,6 +210,7 @@ void __put_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk) delayacct_tsk_free(tsk); put_signal_struct(tsk->signal); + atomic_notifier_call_chain(&task_free_notifier, 0, tsk); if (!profile_handoff_task(tsk)) free_task(tsk); } -- 2.7.4