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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Q: nr_threads locking
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:25:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EA3F153.3000106@colorfullife.com> (raw)

Hi Andrew,

According to the comments, nr_threads is protected by lock_kernel, but 
do_fork() runs without the bkl for ages.
Would it be possible to use your percpu_counters for nr_threads? It 
seems to be used only to guard against fork bombs and for i_nlink of /proc.

--
    Manfred


             reply	other threads:[~2003-04-21 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-21 13:25 Manfred Spraul [this message]
2003-04-21 18:28 ` Q: nr_threads locking Andrew Morton
2003-04-21 18:49   ` Manfred Spraul

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