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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rc1-mm 2/3] coredump: shutdown current process first
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:01:31 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060410140131.GB85@oleg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060410070840.26AE41809D1@magilla.sf.frob.com>

On 04/10, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> I would be inclined to restructure the inner loop something like this:
> 
> 		p = g;
> 		while (unlikely(p->mm == NULL)) {
> 			p = next_thread(p);
> 			if (p == g)
> 				break;
> 		}
> 		if (p->mm == mm) {
> 			/*
> 			 * p->sighand can't disappear, but
> 			 * may be changed by de_thread()
> 			 */
> 			lock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
> 			zap_process(p);
> 			unlock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
> 		}

Yes, I agree, this is much more understandable.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-10 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-09  0:11 [PATCH rc1-mm 2/3] coredump: shutdown current process first Oleg Nesterov
2006-04-10  7:08 ` Roland McGrath
2006-04-10 14:01   ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2006-04-14  8:04     ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-14 15:33       ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-04-14 17:02         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-09 17:24 ` [PATCH] 2.6.17-rc4 bugfix with initramfs Nickolay
2006-06-10  7:07   ` Sam Ravnborg

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