Re: [PATCH UPDATED 06/14] signal: use GROUP_STOP_PENDING to avoidstopping multiple times for a single group stop

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Nov 29 2010 - 08:38:51 EST


Hello, Oleg.

On 11/28/2010 08:07 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>> @@ -732,6 +732,9 @@ static int prepare_signal(int sig, struct task_struct *p, int from_ancestor_ns)
>> t = p;
>> do {
>> unsigned int state;
>> +
>> + t->group_stop = 0;
>> +
>
> Yes.
>
> But, afaics, this is not enough. Say, what about zap_other_threads() ?
> We shouldn't allow sub-threads to stop in this case.
>
> Basically, every time we clear ->group_stop_count we should also reset
> ->group_stop for every thread. Fortunately, every time we already do
> while_each_thread().

Yes, indeed. Will update accordingly.

Thanks.

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tejun
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