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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mike Fulton <fultonm@ca.ibm.com>,
	Sean Foley <Sean_Foley@ca.ibm.com>,
	Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Add prctl to set sibling thread names
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:49:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091022004919.GT32470@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091021174804.3885db37@infradead.org>

> you're pretty much the first now who touches ->comm from
> not-the-thread-itself.... are you sure that is safe?

It's not, there is no locking. On the other hand nothing should crash,
just users might see half rewritten data.
-Andi
-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-22  0:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-21 23:21 [RFC][PATCH] Add prctl to set sibling thread names john stultz
2009-10-22  0:28 ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-22  0:42   ` john stultz
2009-10-22  0:44     ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-22  0:48 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-22  0:49   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-10-22  2:48     ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-24  3:54       ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-26 23:56         ` john stultz
2009-10-22  0:52   ` john stultz
2009-10-22  2:00     ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-05  2:26       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-11-05  5:17         ` Darren Hart
2009-11-05  5:22           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-11-05  5:36             ` Darren Hart
2009-11-05  5:42               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-11-05 19:11                 ` john stultz
     [not found]                 ` <OF5EE04242.D2B67AF2-ON85257665.0064683D-85257665.0068209E@ca.ibm.com>
2009-11-10  5:27                   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-11-10 20:16                     ` john stultz
2009-11-11  0:04                       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
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2009-11-05 19:03 Sean Foley

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