From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb-F7+t8E8rja9g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
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Subject: Re: Q: cgroup: Questions about possible issues in cgroup locking
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:06:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120120150620.GB9081@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120119181803.GU18166-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
On 01/19, Mandeep Singh Baines wrote:
>
> Oleg Nesterov (oleg-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org) wrote:
> > But we did
> > have a reason (reasons?). Hopefully, the only really important reason
> > was already removed by 087806b1.
>
> Ah. So the leader->group_leader may have been necessary earlier in order
> to prevent two tasks, old leader and new leader from both returning true
> for thread_group_leader(tsk).
Not really. de_thread() does release_task(old_leader). Please look, for
example, at __exit_signal(). thread_group_leader() must not be true in
this case.
Oleg.
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-21 3:43 Q: cgroup: Questions about possible issues in cgroup locking Frederic Weisbecker
2011-12-21 13:08 ` Oleg Nesterov
[not found] ` <20111221130848.GA19679-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-21 17:56 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-12-21 19:01 ` Mandeep Singh Baines
[not found] ` <20111221190102.GE13529-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-21 19:08 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-12-21 19:24 ` Mandeep Singh Baines
[not found] ` <20111221192413.GF13529-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-21 20:04 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-12-22 15:30 ` Oleg Nesterov
[not found] ` <20111222153004.GA30522-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-04 19:36 ` Mandeep Singh Baines
[not found] ` <20120104193614.GF9511-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-06 15:23 ` Oleg Nesterov
[not found] ` <20120106152356.GA23995-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-06 18:25 ` Mandeep Singh Baines
[not found] ` <20120106182535.GJ9511-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-11 16:07 ` Oleg Nesterov
[not found] ` <20120111160730.GA24556-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-12 0:31 ` Mandeep Singh Baines
[not found] ` <20120112003102.GB9511-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-12 17:07 ` Oleg Nesterov
[not found] ` <20120112170728.GA25717-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-12 17:57 ` Mandeep Singh Baines
[not found] ` <20120112175725.GD9511-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-13 15:20 ` Oleg Nesterov
[not found] ` <20120113152010.GA19215-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-13 18:27 ` Mandeep Singh Baines
[not found] ` <20120113182750.GD18166-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-14 17:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
[not found] ` <20120114173648.GA32543-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-18 23:17 ` Mandeep Singh Baines
2012-01-19 15:45 ` Oleg Nesterov
[not found] ` <20120119154522.GA14058-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-19 18:18 ` Mandeep Singh Baines
[not found] ` <20120119181803.GU18166-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-20 15:06 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2012-03-20 19:34 ` Oleg Nesterov
[not found] ` <20120320193414.GA21277-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-03-21 18:59 ` Mandeep Singh Baines
[not found] ` <20120321185955.GK27051-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-03-23 17:51 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-12-21 17:59 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-12-21 18:11 ` Oleg Nesterov
[not found] ` <20111221181101.GA3092-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-21 18:23 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-02-01 16:28 ` Frederic Weisbecker
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