On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 12:20:08AM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > "Paul E. McKenney" wrote: > > > > The other thing to think through is tkill on a thread/process while it > > is being created. I believe that this is OK, since thread-specific > > kill must target a specific thread, so does not do the traversal. > > Also, tkill was not converted to use rcu_read_lock yet, it still > takes tasklist_lock, so I think it is safe. I suspect that tkill will eventually need to avoid tasklist_lock... ;-) Thanx, Paul - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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