From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Daniel Phillips <phillips@innominate.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Subtle MM bug
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:13:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010111141330.H25375@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14GQyR-0000mh-00@the-village.bc.nu> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101101210080.4572-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> <20010111125604.A17177@redhat.com> <14941.45349.131276.684932@charged.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <14941.45349.131276.684932@charged.uio.no>; from trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:12:05PM +0100
Hi,
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:12:05PM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> What's wrong with copy-on-write style semantics? IOW, anyone who
> wants to change the credentials needs to make a private copy of the
> existing structure first.
Because COW only solves the problem if each task is only changing its
own, local, private copy of the credentials. Posix threads demand
that one thread changing credentials also affects all the other
threads immediately, and making your own local private copy won't help
you to change the other tasks' credentials safely.
--Stephen
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Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-08 5:29 Subtle MM bug Wayne Whitney
2001-01-08 5:42 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-08 6:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 17:44 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-08 18:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 17:16 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-08 17:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 23:41 ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-09 2:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 6:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-09 7:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 11:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-09 12:29 ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-09 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 19:09 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-09 19:29 ` Trond Myklebust
2001-01-10 17:32 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-10 19:31 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-10 19:33 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-10 19:40 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-10 19:43 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-10 19:48 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-10 19:48 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-11 9:51 ` Trond Myklebust
2001-01-10 20:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-11 12:56 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-11 13:10 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-11 13:12 ` Trond Myklebust
2001-01-11 14:13 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2001-01-11 19:03 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-11 19:47 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-11 19:57 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-11 16:50 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-01-11 17:35 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-11 19:38 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-01-11 19:01 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-09 19:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-17 8:46 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-25 22:51 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-09 19:53 ` Simon Kirby
2001-01-09 20:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 20:10 ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-10 1:45 ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-10 2:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-10 6:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-10 11:46 ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-10 14:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-10 17:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-10 18:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-17 14:26 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-10 19:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-10 19:27 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-10 19:36 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-10 23:56 ` David Weinehall
2001-01-11 0:24 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-12 5:56 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-12 16:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-12 21:11 ` Russell King
2001-01-15 2:56 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-15 6:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-15 2:53 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-15 8:41 ` Caches, page coloring, virtual indexed caches, and more Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-15 11:54 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-15 12:53 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-01-15 17:41 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-17 4:36 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-01-16 9:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-17 4:43 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-01-17 8:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-15 17:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-16 4:58 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-15 18:22 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-01-15 12:51 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-01-17 14:28 ` Subtle MM bug Rik van Riel
2001-01-18 1:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-18 11:48 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-10 17:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-11 14:36 ` Jim Gettys
2001-01-08 21:30 ` Wayne Whitney
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-10 19:57 Chris Wing
2001-01-08 20:39 Szabolcs Szakacsits
2001-01-08 21:56 ` Wayne Whitney
2001-01-08 23:22 ` Wayne Whitney
2001-01-08 23:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 0:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 22:00 ` Wayne Whitney
2001-01-08 22:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-07 20:59 Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-07 21:37 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-07 22:33 ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-09 2:01 ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-17 4:48 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-17 18:53 ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-18 1:32 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-17 19:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
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