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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: tytso@mit.edu, Salman <sqazi@google.com>,
	mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	peterz@infradead.org, tytso@google.com,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, walken@google.com,
	Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>,
	Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix a race in pid generation that causes pids to be reused immediately.
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:26:08 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100615032608.GB30479@drongo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100614185556.afdc5304.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 06:55:56PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > kernel/sched_clock.c:   if (cmpxchg64(&scd->clock, old_clock, clock) != old_cloc
> 
> I guess that'll flush out any stragglers.

And break most non-x86 32-bit architectures, including 32-bit powerpc.
Fortunately that code is only used if CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
is set, and it looks like only x86 and ia64 set it.

Paul.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-15  3:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-11 17:17 [PATCH] Fix a race in pid generation that causes pids to be reused immediately Salman
2010-06-11 17:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-11 22:49   ` Salman
2010-06-11 23:07     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-14 23:58     ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-15  0:56       ` tytso
2010-06-15  1:55         ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-15  3:26           ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2010-06-15  4:21             ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-15  4:38               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-15  6:57               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-06-15  7:25               ` Paul Mackerras
2010-06-15 12:56           ` tytso
2010-06-15 13:06             ` Kyle McMartin
2010-06-15 14:35           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-15 19:37             ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-15 18:35     ` [PATCH 0/1] (Was: Fix a race in pid generation that causes pids to be reused immediately.) Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-15 18:35       ` [PATCH 1/1] pids: alloc_pidmap: remove the unnecessary boundary checks Oleg Nesterov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-06-10 21:24 [PATCH] Fix a race in pid generation that causes pids to be reused immediately Salman
2010-06-10 20:09 Salman
2010-06-10 20:38 ` tytso
2010-06-10 21:04   ` Salman Qazi
2010-06-09 21:00 Salman
2010-06-09 21:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-09 21:33   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-09 22:20     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-09 22:27       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-10  0:08         ` Salman Qazi
2010-06-10  0:20           ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found]             ` <AANLkTilXJ0X2qxD9cNTlLayKzySEZu1HEZUWu--Go8kw@mail.gmail.com>
2010-06-10  5:55               ` Salman Qazi
2010-06-10 16:39                 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-09  6:24 Salman
2010-06-09  6:53 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-09  9:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-09 15:39   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-09 15:50     ` tytso
2010-06-09 16:06       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-09 17:10         ` tytso
2010-06-09 17:23           ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-09 17:25             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-09 17:34               ` tytso
2010-06-09 17:43                 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-09 17:47                   ` tytso
2010-06-09 18:09                     ` Salman Qazi
2010-06-09 11:49 ` Michel Lespinasse
2010-06-09 12:37   ` tytso
2010-06-09 12:17 ` tytso

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