From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>,
holt@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] AB-BA deadlock between uidhash_lock and tasklist_lock.
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:37:16 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0412231532470.2654@ppc970.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041223153053.173098f5.akpm@osdl.org>
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> hrm. Why don't we just do this?
Seems sane enough. Nobody should look at somebody elses user anyway. The
signal code does, though. That's a separate bug (and looks harmless), and
that code doesn't hold tasklist_lock anyway, so the lock doesn't matter
for that thing.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-23 23:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-22 22:08 Robin Holt
2004-12-23 17:37 ` Robin Holt
2004-12-23 22:54 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-23 23:21 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-12-23 23:30 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-23 23:37 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2005-03-10 12:37 Robin Holt
2005-03-10 18:40 ` Linus Torvalds
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