From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 3/3] proc: make task_sig() lockless
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:37:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15829.1269333449@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100322184136.GA3967@redhat.com>
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
> task_sig() doesn't need ->siglock.
Except that the data returned might then be inconsistent because you don't
hold a lock as you read the various bits of it.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-23 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-22 18:41 [PATCH -mm 3/3] proc: make task_sig() lockless Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-23 8:30 ` David Howells
2010-03-23 8:37 ` David Howells [this message]
2010-03-23 10:57 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-24 8:37 ` David Howells
2010-03-24 15:00 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-09 19:59 ` Roland McGrath
2010-04-10 8:16 ` David Howells
2010-04-12 19:50 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-13 6:30 ` Roland McGrath
2010-04-13 20:00 ` Oleg Nesterov
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