Re: [PATCH UPDATED AGAIN 03/10] threadgroup: extendthreadgroup_lock() to cover exit and exec

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 12:42:53AM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > Okay, narrowed exit path protection down to setting of PF_EXITING
> > itself.  ->exit() on dangling tasks is a bit weird but I don't think
> > it's too bad.  Frederic, are you okay with this version?
> 
> Yeah that new scheme that only protects PF_EXITING may look a bit
> strange. But I think we are fine. With rcu list traversal, it should
> be safe even if a group member is concurrently dropped from the list (in that
> case all we check if its PF_EXITING then we give up). And we may
> have a concurrent ->exit() but that should be fine too.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>

Awesome, adding Acked-by, putting it on top of pm-freezer and pushing
it out to linux-next.

Thank you.

-- 
tejun
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