Messages in this thread | | | From | Roland McGrath <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.12.5] NPTL signal delivery deadlock fix | Date | Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:18:36 -0700 (PDT) |
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> * Bhavesh P. Davda (bhavesh@avaya.com) wrote: > > This bug is quite subtle and only happens in a very interesting > > situation where a real-time threaded process is in the middle of a > > coredump when someone whacks it with a SIGKILL. However, this deadlock > > leaves the system pretty hosed and you have to reboot to recover. > > > > Not good for real-time priority-preemption applications like our > > telephony application, with 90+ real-time (SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR) > > processes, many of them multi-threaded, interacting with each other for > > high volume call processing. > > Nice catch, also looks like something for -stable series. Roland, any > issue with this patch?
Ouch! That one must be my fault. I did a quick scan and didn't find any other typos of that nature. This fix definitely should go in everywhere ASAP.
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