Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Feb 2008 16:28:20 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/4] Clean up the kill_someting_info |
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:16:35 +0300 Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> wrote:
> This is the first stop (of two) in removing the kill_pgrp_info. > > All the users of this function are in kernel/signal.c, but all > they need is to call __kill_pgrp_info() with the tasklist_lock > read-locked. > > Fortunately, one of its users is the kill_something_info(), > which already needs this lock in one of its branches, so clean > these branches up and call the __kill_pgrp_info() directly. > > Based on Oleg's view of how this function should look.
This patch causes my Fedora Core 3 x86_64 machine to fail. When rc.sys_init runs /sbin/start_udev a segmentation fault in start_udev is reported and no device nodes are created. This is the only one of my test machines which behaves this way.
Config: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-x.txt Running udev-039-8.FC3
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