Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] ANDROID: binder: improve priority inheritance.

[Martijn Coenen]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 04:07:47PM +0200, Martijn Coenen wrote:
>> By raising the priority of a thread selected for
>> a transaction *before* we wake it up.
>>
>> Delay restoring the priority when doing a reply
>> until after we wake-up the process receiving
>> the reply.
>
> What happens if a thread dies?

Binder threads should never exit, but if they do, the whole process
exits. Anyway in that case we still restore the priority of this
thread - it's in the error path in the "@@ -3328,6 +3369,7 @@"
section.