Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 16 Feb 2003 10:15:08 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Fw: 2.5.61 oops running SDET |
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On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Manfred Spraul wrote: > > AFAICS both exec and exit rely on write_lock_irq(tasklist_lock) for > synchronization of changes to tsk->sig{,hand}.
Yeah, as I sent out in my last email this does seem to be true right now, but it's really not correct. It's disgusting that we use such a fundamental global lock to protect something so trivially local to the one process, where the local per-process lock really should be more than enough.
Linus
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