Re: 2.6.24-rc2-mm1

[Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>]

Andrew Morton wrote:
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> hm, that was supposed to shut itself off after 100 messages:
>
> 	if (unlikely(clone_flags & (CLONE_DETACHED|CLONE_STOPPED))) {
> 		static int __read_mostly count = 100;
>
> 		if (count && printk_ratelimit()) {
> 			char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN];
>
> 			count--;
> 			printk(KERN_INFO "fork(): process `%s' used deprecated "
> 					"clone flags 0x%lx\n",
> 				get_task_comm(comm, current),
> 				clone_flags & (CLONE_DETACHED|CLONE_STOPPED));
> 		}
> 	}
>
> I don't see how you got 151 instances.  I guess I'm having another stupid
> day.

It looks like a simple race, two threads do count-- before doing 
if(count), resulting in an almost infinite loop.  Probably.

atomic_test_and_dec might work.







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