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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] coredump: don't take tasklist_lock
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> This patch removes tasklist_lock from zap_threads().

That's a very worthwhile thing to do, and this change looks good to me.
I have not 100% followed the recent related de_thread discussion, but
certainly issues there should be resolved such that this change can be done.


Thanks,
Roland