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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fix SIGSTOP locking issue in -rt

* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> The following patch fixes a locking issue in -rt signals, where the
> job-control signals drop sighand_lock momentarily during signal
> handling. This interacts badly with the RCU-ification of unicast
> signal delivery. The fix is simply to acquire tasklist_lock for
> job-control signals, since these typically do not have stringent
> scalability or latency requirements.

thanks, applied - will show up in -rt3.

Ingo
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