Messages in this thread | | | From | Pranith Kumar <> | Date | Tue, 28 Oct 2014 22:13:06 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/2] Signal-related changes for 3.19 |
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > Hello! > > This series updates RCU handling in signals: > > 1. Prevents a possible very long RCU read-side critical section > in kill_pid_info(). > > 2. Explain why the "obviously buggy" freeing of sighand by > __cleanup_sighand() without an RCU grace period really isn't > buggy, courtesy of Oleg Nesterov.
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
> > Thanx, Paul > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > b/kernel/fork.c | 5 ++++- > b/kernel/signal.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- > 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) >
-- Pranith
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