Re: [PATCH] Fix a race in pid generation that causes pids to bereused immediately.

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Otherwise you have three threads, two of which pick the same pid (because 
> the test-and-set isn't atomic), and a third of which picks a new one.

In fact, I don't think you need three threads at all. It's perfectly ok to 
just have two threads, and they'd both end up picking the same 'pid' 
without the atomicity guarantees of that 'test_and_set()' bitmap access.

And they'd both be perfectly fine setting last_pid to that (shared) pid if 
I read that cmpxchg loop right. No?

		Linus
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