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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, oleg@tv-sign.ru,
	dipankar@in.ibm.com, suzannew@cs.pdx.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixes for RCU handling of task_struct
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:09:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051103190916.GA13417@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051031205119.5bd897f3.akpm@osdl.org>

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:51:19PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> >
> > @@ -1433,7 +1485,16 @@ send_group_sigqueue(int sig, struct sigq
> >   	int ret = 0;
> >   
> >   	BUG_ON(!(q->flags & SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC));
> >  -	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
> >  +
> >  +	while(!read_trylock(&tasklist_lock)) {
> >  +		if (!p->sighand)
> >  +			return -1;
> >  +		cpu_relax();
> >  +	}
> 
> This looks kind of ugly and quite unobvious.
> 
> What's going on there?

This was discussed in the following thread:

	http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112756875713008&w=2

Looks like its author asked for it to be withdrawn in favor of Roland's
"[PATCH] Call exit_itimers from do_exit, not __exit_signal" patch:

	http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113008567108608&w=2

My guess is that "Roland" is "Roland McGrath", but I cannot find the
referenced patch.  Oleg, any enlightenment?

						Thanx, Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-03 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-31  2:05 [PATCH] Fixes for RCU handling of task_struct Paul E. McKenney
2005-10-31 14:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-10-31 14:08   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-11-01  4:51   ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-03 19:09     ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2005-11-04 17:41       ` Oleg Nesterov
2005-11-04 20:08         ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-11-05 16:32           ` Oleg Nesterov
2005-11-05 23:20             ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-11-06 12:01               ` Oleg Nesterov
2005-11-06 22:59                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-11-07 13:17                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2005-11-07 18:28                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2005-11-06 21:49   ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-06 22:43     ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-11-07  1:12     ` Nick Piggin
2005-11-07  4:58       ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-11-07  5:51         ` Nick Piggin
2005-11-07 18:10           ` Paul E. McKenney

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