Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/5] signals: Don't hold shared siglock acrosssignal delivery

[Matt Fleming]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:20:59 +0200
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Btw, I forgot to mention another problem. We should not dequeue from
> signal->shared_pending before task->pending. There are various reasons
> why we shouldn't, but in particular please look at a27341cd
> "Prioritize synchronous signals over 'normal' signals".

Oh, that's an interesting point! I hadn't thought of that.

OK, I'll swap the dequeue order back to the way it was. This actually
makes things a little easier as we can now get away with not reading
the list of pending shared signals in the fast path.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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