From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, patrics@interia.pl,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.13.1] Patch for invisible threads
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 03:12:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050915021236.GA25261@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4328D0A8.90504@in.ibm.com>
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 08:38:48PM -0500, Sripathi Kodi wrote:
> Roland McGrath wrote:
> >>If you don't like this idea at all, please let me know if there any other
> >>way of solving the invisible threads problem, short of taking out
> >>->permission() altogether from proc_task_inode_operations.
> >
> >
> >Have you investigated my suggestion to move __exit_fs from do_exit to
> >release_task?
>
> Roland,
>
> No, I had missed this completely. Sorry.
>
> I just gave it a quick try and it seems to be working fine. I have only
> moved __exit_fs to the top of release_task, not moved exit_namespace after
> it. I will try to run some tests to see if this is working fine. Thanks a
> lot.
Among other things, it means that zombies keep pinning their root and cwd
down, AFAICS. Not Good(tm).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-15 2:12 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
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 [this message]
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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