Re: [PATCH] coredump: Limit what can interrupt coredumps
From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Mon Jun 14 2021 - 12:59:35 EST
On 06/14, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> I would very much like some clarity on TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL. At the very
> least it would be nice if it could get renamed TIF_NOTIFY_TASK_WORK.
No, no, no ;)
I think that, for example, freezer should be changed to use
set_notify_signal() rather than fake_signal_wake_up(). Livepatch.
And probably it will have more users.
> I don't understand the logic with well enough of adding work to
> non-io_uring threads with task_work_add to understand why that happens
> in the first place.
Same here.
Oleg.