Now that task->signal can't go away get_nr_threads() doesn't need
->siglock to read signal->count.

Also, make it inline, move into sched.h, and convert 2 other proc
users of signal->count to use this (now trivial) helper.

Henceforth get_nr_threads() is the only valid user of signal->count,
we are ready to turn it into "int nr_threads" or, perhaps, kill it.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---

 include/linux/sched.h |    5 +++++
 fs/proc/array.c       |    4 ++--
 fs/proc/base.c        |   12 ------------
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

--- 34-rc1/include/linux/sched.h~PROC_1_GNT_DONT_USE_SIGLOCK	2010-03-22 16:35:43.000000000 +0100
+++ 34-rc1/include/linux/sched.h	2010-03-22 16:41:53.000000000 +0100
@@ -2148,6 +2148,11 @@ extern bool current_is_single_threaded(v
 #define while_each_thread(g, t) \
 	while ((t = next_thread(t)) != g)
 
+static inline int get_nr_threads(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+	return atomic_read(&tsk->signal->count);
+}
+
 /* de_thread depends on thread_group_leader not being a pid based check */
 #define thread_group_leader(p)	(p == p->group_leader)
 
--- 34-rc1/fs/proc/array.c~PROC_1_GNT_DONT_USE_SIGLOCK	2010-03-11 13:11:50.000000000 +0100
+++ 34-rc1/fs/proc/array.c	2010-03-22 17:04:44.000000000 +0100
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ static inline void task_sig(struct seq_f
 		shpending = p->signal->shared_pending.signal;
 		blocked = p->blocked;
 		collect_sigign_sigcatch(p, &ignored, &caught);
-		num_threads = atomic_read(&p->signal->count);
+		num_threads = get_nr_threads(p);
 		rcu_read_lock();  /* FIXME: is this correct? */
 		qsize = atomic_read(&__task_cred(p)->user->sigpending);
 		rcu_read_unlock();
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file 
 			tty_nr = new_encode_dev(tty_devnum(sig->tty));
 		}
 
-		num_threads = atomic_read(&sig->count);
+		num_threads = get_nr_threads(task);
 		collect_sigign_sigcatch(task, &sigign, &sigcatch);
 
 		cmin_flt = sig->cmin_flt;
--- ...
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Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>

I'm not entirely sure about the name, but it's probably fine.  There should
be some comments somewhere making clear what "nr" or kind of threads this
refers to.  This is threads created and not yet reaped.  It differs from
the "threads not yet exited" (signal->live) count only during some races
around exit time, and when ptrace is preventing self-reaping.


Thanks,
Roland
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