Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] getrusage: use sig->stats_lock
From: Dylan Hatch
Date: Tue Jan 23 2024 - 18:45:53 EST
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 7:51 AM Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Dylan, do you have something to add?
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> Oleg.
>
I have one last question -- is there possibly an edge case in which
the hard lockup
can still happen? How likely is it for many writers to force enough
readers to do a
retry on the seqlock, disabling irq and causing the lockup? Is this
not a concern
because there aren't many writers?
Thanks,
Dylan