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SubjectRe: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/2] Signal-related changes for 3.19
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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