Hi,
On 27/06/06, Shailabh Nagar <[email protected]> wrote:
Use irqsave variants of spin_lock for newly introduced tsk->signal->stats_lock
The lock is nested within tasklist_lock as part of release_task() and hence
there is possibility of a AB-BA deadlock if a timer interrupt occurs while
stats_lock is held.
Thanks to Arjan van de Ven for pointing out the lock bug.
The patch conservatively converts all use of stats_lock to irqsave variant
rather than only the call within taskstats_tgid_free which is the function
called within tasklist_lock protection.
Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <[email protected]>
Problem solved, thanks.
Regards,
Michal
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