Re: Attaching a process to cgroups

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Wed Jun 27 2012 - 22:41:45 EST


On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 10:10 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> I really did mean "remove". Removing a synchronize_rcu() does result
> in a race, but often an extremely low-probability race. So you can
> remove a synchronize_rcu() and get lucky for a long time, but sooner
> or later, something will explode.

Ah. Android patches did "replace", and it still didn't take long at all
for bad luck to happen.. so "remove" for that particular instance would
probably result in "sooner" variety explosions :)

-Mike

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