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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, patrics@interia.pl,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.13.1] Patch for invisible threads
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 02:52:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050914015253.GX25261@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43278116.8020403@in.ibm.com>

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 08:47:02PM -0500, Sripathi Kodi wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> >I don't think this is wrong per se, but you shouldn't take the tasklist 
> >lock normally. You're better off just doing
> 
> Linus,
> 
> I incarporated the path that doesn't hold tasklist lock unnecessarily. The 
> patch is below. This seems to work without any problems for me.
> 
> If the decision is to remove ->permission, I can send a small patch I have 
> that removes .permission entry from proc_task_inode_operations. Either way 
> fixes the problem I found.

NAK.  Even if equivalent of that kludge might be tolerable for our purposes,
it does _not_ belong on any of the normal codepaths.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-14  1:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-12 17:46 [PATCH 2.6.13.1] Patch for invisible threads Sripathi Kodi
2005-09-12 20:49 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-13 13:10   ` Sripathi Kodi
2005-09-13 14:53     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-13 16:51       ` Al Viro
2005-09-13 17:01         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-13 17:12           ` Al Viro
2005-09-13 21:30             ` Sripathi Kodi
2005-09-13 21:56               ` Roland McGrath
2005-09-13 21:57               ` Al Viro
2005-09-13 23:10               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-14  1:47                 ` Sripathi Kodi
2005-09-14  1:52                   ` Al Viro [this message]
2005-09-14 14:37                   ` Bill Davidsen
2005-09-15  0:30                     ` Sripathi Kodi
2005-09-14  1:50                 ` Al Viro
2005-09-15  0:31                   ` Sripathi Kodi
2005-09-15  0:55                     ` Roland McGrath
2005-09-15  1:38                       ` Sripathi Kodi
2005-09-15  2:12                         ` Al Viro
2005-09-15  7:29                           ` Roland McGrath
2005-09-15  1:18                     ` Al Viro
2005-09-16  0:54                       ` Sripathi Kodi
2005-09-16  7:46                         ` Al Viro
2005-09-16 15:06                           ` Sripathi Kodi
2005-09-16 18:05                           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-09-16 18:14                             ` Al Viro

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