Re: [PATCH] possible error in EXIT_DEAD transformation

[Ingo Molnar]

* Joe Korty <joe.korty@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This assignment may have been missed, when TASK_DEAD was
> converted over to EXIT_DEAD.

> @@ -2664,7 +2664,7 @@ need_resched_nonpreemptible:
>  	spin_lock_irq(&rq->lock);
>  
>  	if (unlikely(prev->flags & PF_DEAD))
> -		prev->state = EXIT_DEAD;
> +		prev->exit_state = EXIT_DEAD;

no, here we set the dead task's state to EXIT_DEAD, so that it does not 
come back on the runqueue. Its ->exit_state is already EXIT_DEAD (or 
EXIT_ZOMBIE).

	Ingo
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