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From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Subject: odd timing bug with cgroups?
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:38:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4852E8D5.3000503@nortel.com> (raw)


I'm seeing some odd behaviour in the case where a parent task forks a 
child and then immediately attempts to put the child into a group.

It appears that there is a window after task creation where the child 
task is in "limbo" such that the parent cannot put it into a group.  If 
I run the parent under "strace" or else sleep for a bit before trying to 
put the child into a group, then everything works fine.

This seems odd...I would think that as soon as the fork() call returns 
in the parent we should be able to put that task into a group.

I'm just starting to look at the code, but I thought I'd mention it in 
case someone knows exactly where to look.

Chris

             reply	other threads:[~2008-06-13 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-13 21:38 Chris Friesen [this message]
2008-06-14  4:15 ` odd timing bug with cgroups? Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-06-16 16:45   ` Chris Friesen
2008-06-16 21:29     ` odd timing bug with cgroups -- solved Chris Friesen

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