On Thursday 13 September 2007, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Well that'd be nice, but I don't see anywhere that that happens. AFAICT
> the acquire we do in the first coredump callback is the first the SPU
> contexts know about their PPE process dying. And spufs is still live, so
> I think we definitely need to grab the mutex, or we might race with
> userspace accessing spufs files.
Right, I was only thinking about the dumping process itself, but there
may be other processes that still have files open for that context.
Arnd <><
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