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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>
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Subject: Re: Add pacct_struct to fix some pacct bugs.
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:24:59 +0900
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> wrote:

> Hi, I noticed three problems in pacct facility.
> 
> 1. Pacct facility has a possibility to write incorrect ac_flag
>    in multi-threading cases.
> 2. There is a possibility to be waken up OOM Killer from
>    pacct facility. It will cause system stall.
> 3. If several threads are killed at same time, There is
>    a possibility not to pick up a part of those accountings.
> 
> The attached patch will resolve those matters.
> Any comments please. Thanks,

Thanks, but you have three quite distinct bugs here, and three quite
distinct descriptions and, I think, three quite distinct fixes.

Would it be possible for you to prepare three patches?