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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] orphaned pgrp fixes
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 17:11:17 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080305011117.60EAA27010A@magilla.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Oleg Nesterov's message of Tuesday, 4 March 2008 18:51:13 +0300 <20080304155113.GC564@tv-sign.ru>
> However, SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED doesn't relaible with ptrace. I mean, ptracer
> doesn't clear SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED. This is btw one of the problems which
> complicates fixing do_wait(WSTOPPED).
We can clean that up too if you'd like to bring up the details.
> As for SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPING... I am dreaming to find the way to eliminate
> this lock-drop in get_signal_to_deliver(). Not sure this is possible, but
> it is so nasty. For example, SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED is racy, and I don't know
> how to fix this. The patch we discussed some time ago doesn't really work
> because dequeue_signal() drops the lock too. The latter is fixable afaics,
> but needs very ugly changes.
It all certainly deserves more careful thought.
Thanks,
Roland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-05 1:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-02 18:44 Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-04 12:26 ` Roland McGrath
2008-03-04 15:51 ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-05 1:11 ` Roland McGrath [this message]
2008-03-05 16:48 ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-05 17:11 ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-06 1:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-03-07 1:52 ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-07 3:53 ` Roland McGrath
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