Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Nov 2005 14:11:00 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix SIGSTOP locking issue in -rt |
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* 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.
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