exit: exit_notify() can trust signal->notify_count < 0

signal_struct->count in its current form must die.

- it has no reasons to be atomic_t

- it looks like a reference counter, but it is not

- otoh, we really need to make task->signal refcountable, just look at
  the extremely ugly task_rq_unlock_wait() called from __exit_signals().

- we should change the lifetime rules for task->signal, it should be
  pinned to task_struct.  We have a lot of code which can be simplified
  after that.

- it is not needed!  while the code is correct, any usage of this
  counter is artificial, except fs/proc uses it correctly to show the
  number of threads.

This series removes the usage of sig->count from exit pathes.

This patch:

Now that Veaceslav changed copy_signal() to use zalloc(), exit_notify()
can just check notify_count < 0 to ensure the execing sub-threads needs
the notification from us.  No need to do other checks, notify_count != 0
must always mean ->group_exit_task != NULL is waiting for us.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <[email protected]>
Cc: Veaceslav Falico <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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