Re: [PATCH] for account_group_exec_runtime(), make sure ->signalcan't be freed under rq->lock

[Ingo Molnar]

* Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 11:35 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > The patch is ugly, but I don't see the better fix for now. Needs the 
> > > review from Peter/Ingo.
> > this is indeed too ugly, and if we do it we'll get both this ugliness 
> > and the CPU loop upstream forever. Frank, if you dont have time to fix 
> > this code, then i guess the best thing is to do the full revert that 
> > Peter sent.
> 
> Well, at the moment I'm up to my armpits in alligators.  That said, 
> we're going to have to pull in this code regardless, ugliness and 
> all, since we're guaranteed to run into the soft lockup bug 
> otherwise.  This means that I'll have strong incentive to come back 
> and readdress the fix to remove the ugliness and address Peter's 
> concerns.  I have no idea when that will be, however.

well, we wont leave buggy code in there for .28 - it could trigger 
anytime on any SMP box, no matter how narrow the race is.

I've picked up the spin-wait fix from Oleg, because it fixes the bug. 
But we should really fix the fundamental issues here too.

	Ingo
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