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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] muptiple bugs in PI futexes
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:13:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1181077986.4404.165.camel@chaos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070605210028.GA10084@ms2.inr.ac.ru>

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 01:00 +0400, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> > We actually need to do something about this, as we might loop for ever
> > there. The robust cleanup code can fail (e.g. due to list corruption)
> > and we would see exit_state != 0 and the OWNER_DIED bit would never be
> > set, so we are stuck in a busy loop.
> 
> Yes...
> 
> It is possible to take read_lock(&tasklist_lock) before:

We really want to avoid the tasklist_lock at all. It's not trivial, but
I think it's doable. I send you a patch to test tomorrow morning when my
brain recovered from looking at that code :)

	tglx




      reply	other threads:[~2007-06-05 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-07 14:43 [RFC][PATCH] muptiple bugs in PI futexes Alexey Kuznetsov
2007-05-23  7:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-23 11:51   ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2007-06-05 16:25     ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-05 17:39       ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2007-06-05 18:48         ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-05 19:15           ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-05 21:00             ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2007-06-05 21:13               ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]

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