From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: vatsa@in.ibm.com
Cc: nathanl@austin.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
zwane@linuxpower.ca, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:53:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040817105322.6f596061.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040817113839.GB7005@in.ibm.com>
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> I found this to be due to task leak in exit code. In release_task:
>
> a. Task is removed from task-list (unhash_process)
> b. More processing is done (like proc_pid_flush etc)
> before task finally dies.
>
> The problem is the task can get preempted between a and b.
It seems wrong that a task can be preempted so late in its lifetime. We're
just asking for nasty bugs by permitting that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-17 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-16 21:37 2.6.8.1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-08-16 21:47 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-17 13:20 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Frediano Ziglio
2004-08-18 23:57 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Peter Osterlund
2004-08-19 9:45 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-20 5:44 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Peter Osterlund
2004-08-20 6:03 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-16 22:30 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-16 21:51 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Alan Cox
2004-08-16 23:25 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2004-08-16 23:39 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-17 1:32 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Nathan Lynch
2004-08-17 6:59 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Sam Ravnborg
2004-08-17 6:25 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-17 6:38 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-08-17 7:00 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-17 7:05 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-17 3:07 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-17 3:09 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-17 3:19 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-08-17 3:41 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-17 4:16 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Nick Piggin
2004-08-17 14:38 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-08-17 5:59 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Nathan Lynch
2004-08-17 7:19 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Rusty Russell
2004-08-17 8:45 ` [patch] new-task-fix.patch, 2.6.8.1-mm1 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-17 11:35 ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-17 11:38 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2004-08-17 17:53 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-08-18 1:04 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Rusty Russell
2004-08-18 17:36 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Nathan Lynch
2004-08-17 6:20 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-17 6:40 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 sam
2004-08-17 7:05 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Nathan Lynch
2004-08-17 13:39 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-08-17 12:54 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-17 14:15 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-17 21:59 ` ldchk -> arch/arm/Makefile? [Was: 2.6.8.1-mm1] Sam Ravnborg
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