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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 7/X] ptrace: mv task->parent ptrace_task->pt_tracer
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 05:35:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090528033500.GA24347@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090528031907.E179FFC2BD@magilla.sf.frob.com>

On 05/27, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> If you're going to zero out fields in a corner case, I think you should
> zero si_code too

Well, SI_USER == 0, so si_code is zero. And SI_USER looks more
consistent to me, because

> so it's consistent with what collect_signal() produces
> when a signal is posted with OOM for the sigq allocation.

perhaps it is better to change collect_signal() to set SI_USER ?
Note that __send_signal() user SI_USER, not zero in is_si_special()
case.

> (It is likely nobody will ever see this path anyway,
> since we'll probably merge the clean-up that replaces it before any release
> that uses this series at all.)

Yes!

But without some fix, I was really puzzled how I can make any
progress now.

You never know which change will take most time...

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-28  3:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-25  0:00 [RFC PATCH 7/X] ptrace: mv task->parent ptrace_task->pt_tracer Oleg Nesterov
2009-05-25 21:59 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-05-25 22:39   ` [RFC PATCH 8/X] ptrace: introduce ptrace_tracer() helper Oleg Nesterov
2009-05-27  2:45     ` Roland McGrath
2009-05-27 21:45       ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-05-27 22:24         ` Roland McGrath
2009-05-27  2:11   ` [RFC PATCH 7/X] ptrace: mv task->parent ptrace_task->pt_tracer Roland McGrath
2009-05-27 22:41     ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-05-27 23:05       ` ptrace && task->exit_code Oleg Nesterov
2009-05-27 23:21         ` Roland McGrath
2009-05-29 19:06           ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-01  2:16             ` Roland McGrath
2009-05-27 23:07       ` [RFC PATCH 7/X] ptrace: mv task->parent ptrace_task->pt_tracer Roland McGrath
2009-05-27 23:59         ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-05-28  0:32           ` Roland McGrath
2009-05-28  2:54             ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-05-28  3:19               ` Roland McGrath
2009-05-28  3:35                 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2009-05-28 19:28                   ` Roland McGrath

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