Re: [PATCH 0/4] v6 Improve task->comm locking situation

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 18 May 2011 08:25:54 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>   " Hey, this looks a bit racy and 'top' very rarely, on rare workloads that 
>     play with ->comm[], might display a weird reading task name for a second, 
>     amongst the many other temporarily nonsensical statistical things it 
>     already prints every now and then. "

Well we should at least make sure that `top' won't run off the end of
comm[] and go oops.  I think that's guaranteed by the fact(s) that
init_tasks's comm[15] is zero and is always copied-by-value across
fork and can never be overwritten in any task_struct.

But I didn't check that.

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